ENG 3383 credits
ENG 338: The Novel in the U.S.
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- The course explores the American novel from the 1800s through the present, including touchstone works of long fiction by Twain, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Nabokov, Bellow, Morrison, Tan, Pynchon, and Mailer. By considering novels as both representative (participating in the cultural conversations of their times) and hermeneutic (affording practice and skills in the arts of interpretation), students will consider what made the American novel uniquely American.
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Professors who have taught ENG 338
- James Holstun
- Neil Schmitz
- Robert Daly
- William Solomon
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