ENGLISH 336 - Contemporary American Literature

Institution:

University of Missouri-Kansas City

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An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Proter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time. 3 hrs

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umkc.edu/

Phone Number:

(816) 235-1000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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