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ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR

This course will focus on recently published American novels. We will attend to questions of style, authorship and interpretation against the backdrop of contemporary cultural and political history. Likely authors to include Dorothy Allison, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, Charles Johnson, Jayne Anne Phillips, Richard Powers, Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon. Nature of Interpretation. American, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 30.
Instructor: J. Pence
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”



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