Course details

Name: ENGL - 337

Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
This is a course in American fiction of the first half of the 20th century. We will read works by such writers as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Wharton, Cather, Larson, Barnes, and Steinbeck. We will place emphasis on representations of gender and of race; we will also place works in such major contexts as World War I, the Jazz Age and the “Lost Generation”, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, the rise of European Fascism. Again from perspectives of gender and race, we will discuss the midcentury critical/political processes by which some of the works we will read became part of the American “canon” of literary masterpieces, and others did not.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)

Teaching Faculty: Benediktsson T (benediktssont)

Is course canceled: No