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Academic Year 2002/2003
American Literature of the Jazz Age
ENGL 325 SP
This course will examine how several American writers responded to the many cultural impulses associated with the term, Jazz Age. We will discuss various forms of American modernism in fiction and poetry, and some of
the
critical responses to them. We will also discover the relationship of the writing to jazz music and to the literature of the "lost generation."
MAJOR READINGS
JAZZ, Toni Morrison; TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE, F. Scott Fitzgerald; IN OUR TIME, Ernest Hemingway; CANE, Anita Loos; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS; poetry by Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams and others; nonfiction by
Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken and
others.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One research paper
One classroom presentation
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
ENGL204 OR ENGL230
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Pemberton,Gayle
- Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: JUDD214
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 19)
- SR. major: 6 Jr. major: 4
- SR. non-major: 6 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: X FR: X
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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