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20th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

English College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ENGH

Course Number

253

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature

Course Short Title

20th British Literature

Course Long Title

20th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

Course Description

Examines the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality through an examination of representative texts from Britain and its former colonies in the twentieth century and beyond. Readings may include such authors as Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett, Auden, Larkin, Pinter, Churchill, Quin, Ballard, Rushdie, Winterson, Carter, Naipaul, Coetzee, Achebe, Ngugi and others. May also feature colonialism, war, cities, gender and sexuality, popular culture, science and technology, globalization, language and consciousness as historical and thematic concerns.

Min

4

Repeatable

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