American Modernism
ENGL 322
Fall 2017
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This research seminar considers the renaissance in avant-garde and innovative writing that transformed American literature during the first decades of the 20th century. We will seek to identify some of the major schools and fashions of the era's new literature, and we will attempt to understand their relation to developments in the history of publishing and media, as well as to broader developments in American culture and politics. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(ENGL) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt
Hart Crane, The Bridge
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Kenneth Fearing, selected poems
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives and selections from other writings
Henry Roth, Call it Sleep
Muriel Rukeyser, selected poems
Wallace Stevens, selected poems
Jean Toomer, Cane
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
Richard Wright, Lawd Today
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Examinations and Assignments:
research paper (15 pp)
annotated bibliography
survey of critical literature (5-7 pp)
3 short essays (3-4 pp) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the American Literature concentration of the English major and fulfills the research requirement for Honors eligibilty. |
| Instructor(s): McCann,Sean Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 9 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
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