ENGL-476 Twentieth-Century American Literature
Offered: Fall 2009
Description: An exploration of Modernist alienation and innovation in response to the growth of the city, technology, uneasy relations between races and sexes, and contemporary intellectual history. Emphasis on the dialogue between different subcultures of Modernism: the stylistic avant garde, the women’s sentimental tradition, the Harlem Renaissance, the politically conflicted literature of the 1930s. Authors to be studied include Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, H.D., Gertrude Stein, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner. (3 Credits) |
