Course details

Name: ENGL - 493

Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE LOST GENERATION

Section: 01

Semester: Winter - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
Gertrude Stein's comment to Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation," came to describe an entire period in American culture, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. We will consider the historical, cultural, social, economic, and ideological contexts of literary texts and other cultural products in the Jazz Age, which witnessed the ascendance of modernism and the continuing impact of modernization. We will pay special attention to global interactions and the reemergence of nativism in debates about cultural identity. We will read works by John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Toomer, among others.

Last updated on 2010-10-17 By Knight Melinda (knightm)

Schedule:

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• ()
• ()
• Other American (TE 1d)

Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)

Is course canceled: No