British Modernist Literature
ENGL 285
Fall 2012 not offered
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This course is an introduction to the often radical and formally innovative literature produced during the years 1900-1945. We will read major and minor works from this period including novels, poetry, manifestos, and essays to gain an understanding of the prevailing aesthetics, philosophy, political concerns, and cultural preoccupations of the time. Major themes to be discussed include modernity and degeneration, class, primitivism and empire, gender and feminism, and tradition and history. |
Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Selected Fiction by Conrad, Ford, Woolf, Joyce and many others. Selected Poetry by Yeats, H.D., Loy, Eliot, Stein and many others.
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Examinations and Assignments: Three short essays and a final exam. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments: This course contributes to the fulfillment of the British Lit concentration of the English major. |
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