Course details

Name: ENGL - 338

Title: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This course concentrates on American Fiction, novels and short stories, written mainly after 1990, and investigates a variety of literary currents, voices, styles, approaches and themes by writers such as Philip Roth, Alison Bechdel, Daniel Mason, Jhumpa Lahiri, Charles Johnson, Nicole Krauss and Richard Russo, among others. Critical readings of the works and the issues of narrative, prose style, race, gender, and the social analysis and criticism inherent in the works will be the starting places for class discussion and student writing. The classes will include lecture and discussion, and all students will be expected to contribute to the discussion.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Post-1900 (1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: ()

Is course canceled: No