Course details

Name: ENGL - 337

Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
Between the end of the 19th century and World War II, a major revolution took place in literature and the arts, a series of developments that we call modernism. In the United States, modernism took the form of new forms of fiction that were often transgressive in their subject matter and experimental in their style. American fiction in this period also saw the emergence of many new voices from sectors of society previously marginalized; in particular, it saw a flourishing of brilliant and innovative fiction from Black, female, and queer writers.

This course will attempt to strike a balance between some of the most canonical American voices of the time such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and those who may have entered the canon more recently but are now considered essential to our understanding of the literary and cultural history of the time—writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Djuna Barnes.

The final reading list hasn’t been determined but it is likely to include many of the following writers: Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Anita Loos, Tillie Olsen, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Richard Wright.

Last updated on 2023-03-15 By Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Schedule: Wednesday From 8:00 am To 10:45 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No