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106-426 Post-War American Fiction

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Garry Kinnane.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will have:

• gained a general understanding of the representation of social and cultural issues, including racial, political, gender, moral and aesthetic, in the fiction of the period;
• gained a more detailed understanding of at least one of these issues;
• gained a general understanding of the different 'movements' in post-war American writing, and literary reaction to them;
• developed a close understanding of a significant body of American fictive texts of the period.

Content:

This subject studies racial, political, moral and aesthetic issues in post-war American fiction.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Baldwin J Another Country Penguin
• Bellow S The Dean's December Penguin
• Cheever J Bullet Park Vintage
• De Lillo D Mao II Vintage
• Mailer N Advertisement for Myself Panther
• Morrison T Beloved Picador
• Nabokov V Lolita Penguin
• O'Connor F Everything That Rises Must Converge Methuen
• Pynchon T The Crying of Lot 49 Picador
• Stegner W Crossing to Safety McPhee Gribble
• Thompson H Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Paladin

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