Course details

Name: ENGL - 493

Title: SENIOR SEMINAR:THE HOLOCAUST IN AMERICAN FICTION

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will examine the ways in which post World War II American authors create fiction featuring survivors of the Holocaust while they construct the events and aftermath of the Holocaust itself. Among the works we may examine will be: Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer, Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl, Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story, Francine Prose’s
A Changed Man, Nicole Krauss’ The History of Love, William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and short stories by Rebecca Goldstein, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud.

Schedule: Monday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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

Teaching Faculty: ()

Is course canceled: No