ENGL 272
American Postmodern Fiction
Last Offered Spring 2017
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed AMST 272
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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American fiction took a turn at World War II: from modernism to postmodernism. The most obvious mark of postmodern narration is its self-consciousness. Already a paradox emerges: why would World War II make narratives self-reflexive? The best text for this paradox is Heller’s Catch-22. Subsequent books: Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Morrison’s Beloved, DeLillo’s White Noise, Johnson’s Jesus’s Son, Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3262
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: four papers totaling about 20 pages; participation in class discussions
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: first- and second-year students, and English majors who have yet to take a Gateway course
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 272 Division I AMST 272 Division II
Attributes: AMST Arts in Context Electives
ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C

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