ENGH253
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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Equivalent Course(s)
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