Schemel Forum Course - 21st Century American Literature
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Wednesday, 03 February, 2016
SPRING 2016 SCHEMEL FORUM COURSE
21st Century American Literature
Literature never stands still. It doesn’t seem that long ago since To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) or even The Naked and the Dead (1948) stood as representative texts of “contemporary” American literature. This class aims to explore recent American novels - all written since the turn of the century - both for their individual merit and to speculate about trends in contemporary American literature. Likely texts include Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Junot Diaz’s The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love.
Joseph E. Kraus, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English and Theatre and Director of the Honors Program, The University of Scranton
Wednesdays, February 3, 10, 17, 24 & March 2, 9 from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Weinberg Memorial Library Room 305
*Free for The University of Scranton Faculty, Staff and Students