ENG 220 Introduction to American Literature after 1900
This survey introduces the writers and trends of our century, from realism
and naturalism through modernism to the rich, fragmented energy of
postmodernism and multiculturalism. Writers covered vary from year to year
but may include Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Edith Wharton, Robert
Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings,
Ernest Hemingway, Margery Latimer, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes,
Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger, Allen Ginsberg, Gary
Snyder, Amiri Baraka, John Barth, Raymond Carver, Galway Kinnell, Sharon
Olds, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo.
This course is offered in the spring semester.
Credits: 1
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