ENGL263

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ENGL263

American Realism ENGL263 FA

Crosslistings: AMST225

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       35      0         35

Next Offered in 9798 FA

The faithful representation of "reality" as a political and aesthetic project in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s. Primary emphasis on fiction; some attention to painting, photography, and journalism.

MAJOR READINGS

Readings will include works by such authors
as Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Harding Davis, Stephen Crane,
Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells,
Theodore Dreiser and Ann Petry.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Course assignments will include 15-20 pages of formal essays and a number of informal assignments.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course counts toward the department's Historicity requirement. 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: Discussion Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Richard Wright, 1960

Reference:

Fabre, Michel, THE UNFINISHED QUEST OF RICHARD WRIGHT, New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973

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