Contemporary British and American Fiction
ENGL 213
Spring 2011
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01
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This course will introduce students to some of the most influential British and American novels written after 1945. In addition to close readings of these challenging and rewarding texts, this course will introduce students to key terms in postwar literary history such as modernism, postmodernism, romance, postcolonialism, realism, and magical realism. Central to our investigation of Anglo-American fiction will be the divergent political and economic fortunes of the United States on the one hand and the United Kingdom on the other. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
None |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrier
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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Examinations and Assignments:
3 short papers, a mid-term and a final exam. |
| Instructor(s): Bachner,Sally Times: .M.W.F. 11:00AM-11:50AM; Location: DWNY113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 48 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 48 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 12 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 9 |
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