ENG* 223 Contemporary American Literature

Credits: 3

A survey of American writers 1945- present. Authors likely to be included are Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, John Updike, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Ralph Ellison, and John Barth. Special emphasis will be placed on narrative modes such as primitivism, realism, naturalism, expressionism, surrealism, modernism, and post-modernism.
Prerequisite: ENG* 101; Recommended: ENG* 102 or ENG* 110
TAP Competency: Written Communication in English; Critical Analysis & Logical Thinking