ENGL-489 Americans in Paris

Offered: Spring 2010
Description: Paris and the American imagination. An exploration of the world’s cultural capital as the setting for self-discovery in twentieth-century American writing, with emphasis on attraction and conflict between European and American culture. Authors studied include Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Anaïs Nin and Sam Shepard. (3 Credits)