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Studies in American literature since World War II. Focusing on selected poets and/or novelists, this course will explore the formal and cultural diversity of contemporary American writing. Authors may be studied in relation to various social movements or centers of literary activity. For the poets, these include: the New York School, Black Mountain College, the San Francisco Renaissance, confessional poetry, objectivist poetics, and Language writing. For the novelists: existential realism, the civil rights movement, feminism, anti-war protest, meta-fiction, and postmodernism.