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2012-2013 Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 361 - American Period - Postwar American Literature

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

Continuing where Modernism leaves off, this course considers writers who came into prominence in the first decades following World War II, challenging virtually all literary conventions of the day and exerting considerable influence on life and culture. Readings may include works by such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Eudora Welty, as well as Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.