Course Description
Significant work by American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Writers may include William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Ted Chiang, and Adrienne Rich.
Athena Title
American Lit Since 1914 H
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2340
Prerequisite
(ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E) and permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, students, having read a substantial body of literature, will be able to discuss the assigned works (orally and in writing) with a considerable degree of critical sophistication, to read them with pleasure, to read and enjoy other works from the period, and to converse with fellow students about texts and issues related to the subject matter of the course.
Topical Outline
The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. The topics will consist of selected works by various authors to be read outside of class and discussed in class and to be examined individually and comparatively in the context of the times and the circumstances of their composition. Periodically during the semester, students will perform a number of graded tasks, including some combination of tests and out-of-class papers. A possible series of topics and assignments might resemble this: Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. D and E. Wright, Native Son Eliot, selected Poems Frost, selected poems Bellow, Henderson the Rain King Erdrich, The Beet Queen Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo Morrison, Song of Solomon
General Education Core
CORE IV: Humanities and the ArtsSyllabus