ENGH255
American Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
English
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
ENGH
Course Number
255
Status
Active
Course Attributes
BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature
Course Short Title
American Literature Post-1900
Course Long Title
American Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
Course Description
Teaches students to think historically about literature in the US through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality through an examination of representative texts from post-1900 American literatures. Topics may include naturalism, modernism, the Great Depression, the Harlem Renaissance, race, war, the Beat Generation, the Cold War, New Journalism, multiculturalism, civil rights, class, gender, sexuality, postmodernism, technology, ethics, immigration, and the US diaspora. Authors may include Anderson, Cather, Frost, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison, Hemingway, Hughes, Williams, Lowell, Miller, Morrison, Rich, Plath, DeLillo, and Pynchon.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Equivalent Course(s)
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