UT Dallas 2012 Undergraduate Catalog

LIT3327 - Mid-Twentieth Century American Literature

LIT 3327 Mid-Twentieth Century American Literature (3 semester hours) Surveys American literature from about 1945 to about 1980. Samples such writers as the confessional poets, the Beats, Updike, Oates, Pynchon, Bellow, Mailer, and Morrison, and considers such topics as black humor, feminism, the new journalism, and the self-reflexive novel. Prerequisite: HUMA 1301 or equivalent. (3-0) T