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Contemporary American Fiction

English 238

Usual Description

This course selectively surveys contemporary American fiction. Thematic connections include the role of memory and the past in defining current literary practice. We’ll also focus on the nature of interpretation and its role in consolidating its object of study. The reading list is diverse in a number of ways – stylistic, generic and cultural – but always includes some very recently published work. Past authors have included Bechdel, Canin, Erdrich, Diaz, Lahiri, McCarthy, Pollack, Whitehead. American, Post-1900.

Areas of Interest

Time Periods

Post-1950

Themes

Course Listings

These are all of the listings of this course recorded in the Oberlin course catalog since the fall of 2007.

Listing	Semester	Professor
English 238	Spring 2017	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Fall 2015
English 238	Spring 2015
English 238	Spring 2014	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Fall 2012	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Spring 2012	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Spring 2011	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Spring 2010	Taught by Jeffrey Pence
English 238	Fall 2008	Taught by Jeffrey Pence

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