Course details

Name: ENGL - 501

Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will consider the American West as an idea, place, and process. We will focus primarily on the period from the 1880s through the 1930s and study texts such as exploration and settlement narratives, autobiography, fiction, historiography, painting, photography, and film. We will examine the iconography of the wilderness; westward migration and pioneer images; the "closing" of the frontier; issues of race, class, and gender in relation to nationalism and nativism; the myth of the "Vanishing American"; the western as genre; and the legacy of conquest. We will read works by Mary Austin, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Willa Cather, Charles Alexander Eastman, Zane Grey, Nat Love, Frank Norris, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, and Zitkala-Sa, among others.

Last updated on 2022-03-25 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)

Is course canceled: No