ENGL 357 - Twentieth -Century American Fiction

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University of Richmond

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Attention to new concerns and new forms of fiction in the 20th century. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better or permission of instructor. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course attends to new social, philosophical, and aesthetic concerns in American writing in the mid- to late twentieth century, and to the new forms of fiction that have developed to express them. It examines the work of writers such as John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gass, while developing an understanding of literary postmodernism in relation to the cultural and philosophical movements within which the term first arose and assessing its application and usefulness as a tool for literary analysis.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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