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336 Contemporary American Literature (3)

An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Proter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time.

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