ENGL 26900 - Postwar U.S.Literature

Institution:

University of Chicago

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This survey of postwar U.S. literature begins with Arthur Miller's The Crucible and concludes with Tony Kushner' s Angels in America . These works, haunted by the Rosenberg and McCarthy trials, frame a course that considers a variety of genres and formal experiments in poetic language in terms of the political and cultural upheavals of the cold war. In addition to the two plays, we are likely to read prose works by Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, and Toni Morrison, as well as poetry by Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Robert Lowell, Fran k O'Har a, Elizabeth Bishop, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Monett e. D. Nelson. Winter

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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