ENG 475: American Literature II: from 1900 until the Present

An elective course for students who would like to know more about American culture and literature after 1900. The course deals with the major writers of the period and concentrate on those writes who had a major influence in shaping the American Character, writers like Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and Tony Morrison. Other writers who will be studied include Joyce Caro Oates, Richard Wright, and William Carlos Williams.