English 10C - Fall, 2011

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Recker, Laurel
CRN: 62321
Time: MWF 2:10-3:00
Location: 101 Olson

Description

Twentieth century literature is often viewed as a break with the past; this course will explore how this is true, how it isn’t, and how such a break creates a need to recover personal and collective histories. In particular, we will examine how this drive manifests as a formal obsession with individual and cultural memory in modern and postmodern Anglophone texts. This is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence, spanning 1900 to the present. Please note that this is a reading and writing intensive course designed to prepare you for upper-division coursework in the English major.

Grading

Close reading 1 (500 words): 12%
Close reading 2 (500 words): 12%
Essay 1 (1000 words): 20%
Essay 2 (1500 words): 25%
Blog posts: 6%
Participation/Attendance: 10%
Final Exam: 15%

Texts

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Course reader that includes poetry, short stories, and critical texts
Additional materials to be posted on Smartsite