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ENGL104

Experiencing Modernity ENGL104 SP

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       20      19         1

An introduction to some of the key ideas that have come to define "modernity." We will examine a variety of documents from the mid-19th century through the 1920s, a period closely associated with the formative experience of the "modern." The course is divided into three areas: capitalism, urbanization and technology; sexuality, the unconscious and individual self-development; and, race, nation and "authenticity." Our goal is to understand modernity as it was experienced by American and European writers and to assess critically their legacy in light of our own "late" or "post" modern concerns.

MAJOR READINGS

Conrad: HEART OF DARKNESS
Dickens: HARD TIMES
DuBois: THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
Freud: DORA: AN ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HYSTERIA
Marx and Engels: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Wells: THE TIME MACHINE
Shorter readings by Baudelaire, Boas, Cather, Delany,
Durkheim, Ellis, Fry, Joyce, Le Corbusier, Malinowski, Mew,
Nietzsche, Schreiner, Simmel, Wilde, and Weber.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Six short papers; larger final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Weisberg, D; Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 0, So: 0, Fr: 1; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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