EN 549 Topics in Counter-Cultural Literary Movements

This is a topics course that will provide an in-depth study of a specific counter-cultural literary movement or time period. The course will examine works from several genres within a given literary movement or time period and will study these works within their critical and historical context. In particular, the course will examine how recurrent thematic and structural patterns challenge or respond to Western European literary traditions. Specific topics will rotate, and the course may be taken more than once, provided the student selects different literary topics. (3)