Courses
ENGL4016 American Popular Fiction after 1950 (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- ENGL2007 Literary and Comparative Studies
This course will (1) explore the impact of popular culture on American literature from 1950 to the present; (2) examine the impact of emerging, alternative genres on the American canon during the same period; and (3) approach ideologies of American exceptionalism in the specific context of the globalization of American literature, culture, and economy after 1950.