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Academic Year 2003/2004

American Literature of the Jazz Age
ENGL 325 SP
Crosslistings:
AMST 324
AFAM 329

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

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: ENGL204 OR ENGL230 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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