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ENGH358

The Novel in the 20th Century/Modernism and Postmodernism

English College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ENGH

Course Number

358

Status

Active

Course Attributes

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

The Novel: 20th Cent Mod& Post

Course Long Title

The Novel in the 20th Century/Modernism and Postmodernism

Course Description

Explores representative narratives of the modernist movement and its postmodernist extensions. Texts may be drawn from US, British, and Anglophone traditions, but may also include works in translation from Europe and elsewhere. Authors considered could include Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Beckett, Platonov, Lu Xun, Dos Passos, Stein, Pynchon, Ballard, Coetzee, Acker, Morrison, and Butler. Students should also expect to encounter and think through theories of modernism and postmodernism.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Equivalent Course(s)

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