ENGL293

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ENGL293

American Modernisms: Race/Sex/Nation, 1915-1940 ENGL293 FA

Crosslistings: AMST293

Not Currently Offered

This course considers breakthrough modernist works from a variety of media--literature, film, fine arts, music--in terms of early 20th-century controversies surrounding race, sex and nation. It examines formal innovations (abstractionism, jazz, precisionism, pastoral, realism) in terms of contemporary social and political movements (nativism, Harlem Renaissance, popular front, urbanization). in lecture/seminar format. Prerequisite of ENGL201 or override form.

MAJOR READINGS

F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY
Jean Toomer, CANE
Alain Locke, THE NEW NEGRO
Hart Crane, THE BRIDGE
Langston Hughes, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES
William Faulkner, THE SOUND AND THE FURY
Nella Larsen, QUICKSAND/PASSING

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course meets the English department's historical knowledge and Theory requirements. 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: Lecture Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: ENGL201

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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