Course Description
A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester.
Athena Title
20th Century Brit & Irish Lit
Prerequisite
Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course)
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
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, reread them with pleasure, read and enjoy other works from the period, and converse with fellow students about texts and issues related to the subject-matter of the course.
Topical Outline
The instructor will define an area of investigation in the fields of twentieth-century British and Irish literature, drawing on works of poetry and prose, both fictional and non-fictional. In addition to works by British and/or Irish authors, readings may include other texts pertaining to a particular topic. As well as literary texts, course materials may include music and the visual arts, and readings in history, philosophy, psychology, and critical theory. Student work will consist of some combination of examinations, essays, and oral presentations. Works to be studied for a topic such as “Anglo-American Modernism” may include the following: James, The Turn of the Screw and selected essays; Conrad, The Secret Agent; T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and selected essays; Ford, The Good Soldier; Lawrence, Women in Love; Joyce, Ulysses; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, and selected essays; Loy, The Last Lunar Baedeker; Gay, ed., A Freud Reader
Syllabus