AMST 30254 - American Fiction since 1945

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

American Studies

Description:

Many contemporary writers began long and productive careers during the decades after the Second World War. In this course we will study some of them, using representative texts to try to work out an aesthetic of the time. We will need to look at questions of personal identity as they embrace spiritual, sexual, social, and racial dimensions. And we will also give close attention to the elasticity of the novel form itself. A very tentative reading list: Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man, Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America, Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five, Saul Bellow - Herzog, John Barth - Lost in the Funhouse, John Updike - Rabbit Run, Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and Walker Percy - The Second Coming. There will be a mid-term and final as well as an independent paper on a novel selected by each student.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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