Special Topics in Contemporary Literature

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This course will engage students in a focused study of contemporary literature (works written since about 1960). The class will approach long and short-form fictional works from a variety of historical, stylistic, and thematic vantages. To allow for in-depth treatment of this variety of approaches, the course is designed to rotate its emphasis each time the course is offered. This sequentially shifting focus will allow the course to encompass works from around the globe and to highlight the multiple literary movements and critical approaches of the past 50+ years. This class can be repeated for credit, only when a different topic is covered.