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Spring 2013 English BC3183 section 001
AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945

Call Number 00217
Day & Time
Location
MW 10:10am-11:25am
405 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Points 3
Approvals Required None
Instructor Monica L Miller
Type LECTURE
Course Description SPRING 2014 In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs rendering victory and defeat indistinguishable.  Unable to tolerate this postmodern condition, the United States plunges into an ideological civil war that is waged most dramatically in its literature since 1945.  Authors include O'Connor, Ellison, Ginsberg, Doctorow, Nabokov, Pynchon, Robinson, Hejinian, Waldrop, Hass, Morrison, and DeLillo. SPRING 2013 American fiction, literary and cultural criticism since 1945. Topics include: the authorial and critical search for the great contemporary American novel, the particularity of "American" characters, genres, aesthetics, subjects, the effect of these debates on canon formation and the literary marketplace. Authors may include: Bellow, Ellison, Nabokov, Kerouac, Didion, Pynchon, Morrison, and Lahiri.
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Department English @Barnard
Enrollment 94 students (100 max) as of 11:19PM Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Subject English
Number BC3183
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard, Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Campus Barnard College
Section key 20131ENGL3183X001

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