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| Fall 2011 | ENGL 333.0002 | TTH | 9:30 - 10:45 | DU 270 | Tim Ryan | |
Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1920-1960Course Description: Includes such writers as Stevens, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description:In this course, we will explore one of the most significant periods in American literature, from the avant-garde modernist experiments of the 1920s to the subversive Beat poetry of the 1950s. We will also address the great flowering of African American literature in this period, particularly during the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout the semester, we will examine drama, short fiction, poetry, novels, film, and music. Particular emphasis in this class will be placed upon the skills of close textual analysis. | ||||||
| Course Requirements:Requirements include regular short papers and two exams (a midterm and final). Please note: active and regular participation in class discussion is absolutely crucial to this course and will make up a significant proportion of the final grade. Please contact the instructor if you have any questions about the course or require any additional details: tryan@niu.edu | ||||||
| Required Texts:Assigned Books: Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises (1926); Anzia Yezierska. Bread Givers (1925); Nella Larsen. Passing (1929); William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (1930); Eugene O’Neill. A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943, 1952) Additional short readings will be available as electronic reserves on Blackboard, including: -- Poems by ee cummings, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Allen Ginsberg. -- Short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Grace Paley. Assigned Films: St. Louis Blues (dir. Dudley Murphy, 1929) Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1942). | ||||||
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