Course details

Name: ENGL - 337

Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This course focuses on American novels published between World War I and II that have come to represent the American contribution to the "modernist" literary revolution in the first part of the 20th century. These novels will be considered in the context of the massive social, political, cultural, and aesthetic upheavals associated with this era --the historical roots of such important issues as racism, women’s rights, urbanization, Marxism, and the expansion of industrial capitalism will be discussed to help clarify the imprint of the past on this literature. Also, there will be analysis of how the modernist impulse was interpreted by writers now defined as canonical. The course includes works by such representative authors as Hemingway, Faulkner, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Cather, Wright, Steinbeck, and perhaps others.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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Teaching Faculty: ()

Is course canceled: No