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American Literature 1950-2000

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JMM349

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The explosion of American writing after 1950  

The course will provide the students with basic orientation in the various streams of postwar prose and poetry, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing. The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity. Listed are the authors samples of whose writing will be read in the class.  

Introduction

James Baldwin

Vladimir Nabokov

J. D. Salinger

Beat Movement

Ken Kesey

Saul Bellow

Philip Roth

John Updike

Joyce Carol Oates

Tony Morrison

John Irving  

Tom Robbins  

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This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to the period of American writing that saw an explosion of various approaches to fiction and poetry, reflecting dramatic changes in American society. Basic orientation in the various streams of postwar writing, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing.

The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity.