| Spring 2013 | ENGL 682.1 | TH | 6:00 - 8:40 | RH305 | Ibis GomezVega | |
Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1960 (3)Course Description: Study of drama, fiction, and poetry, including such writers as Bellow, Tyler, Rich, Erdich, Kushner, and Morrison.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description: This class will examine some of the most representative works from different periods of American literature since 1960. Students should come in the first day of class ready to discuss Philip Roth’s "Goodbye, Columbus" and Edward Albee’s Zoo Story. . | ||||||
| Course Requirements: A critical analysis (15+ pages) typed using the MLA style, or a research paper (15+ pages) typed using the MLA Style. | ||||||
| Required Texts: Edward Albee’s Zoo Story (1960) Dorothy Bryant’s Ella Price’s Journal (1972) Don DeLillo's White Noise (1985) Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970) Louise Erdrich’s Tracks (1988) & Love Medicine (1982) Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban (1993) Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (1993) Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches(1992) Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Perestroika (1993) Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (1983) Ramazani’s Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry Adrienne Rich’s The Fact of a Doorframe Philip Roth’s “Goodbye, Columbus” (1959) David Savran’s “The Sadomasochist in the Closet” (PDF) Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972) Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960) Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1997) Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) Suggested: Sally Robinson’s Marked Men | ||||||
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