Contemporary Literature

Catalog description

Focuses on key works and issues in literature produced within the last 30 years. Emphasis on cross-genre, experimental, and innovative works, exploring the relationships and reasons informing various approaches to literary formation. Examples of texts may include narrative, poetry, memoir, multi-modal, digital, and works that span several genres at once. In addition to primary source texts, relevant theories, poetics statements, interviews, and/or public literary reading events will