English 10C-1 - Spring, 2011

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Marx, John
CRN: 32230
Time: TR 1:40-3:00
Location: 105 Olson

Description

This is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence, with this installment focusing on Anglophone literature between 1900 and the present day. This sequence is designed to prepare majors to succeed in upper division courses. To that end, this will be a reading and writing intensive course. The course will consider the complex and dynamic relationship among national and regional British, American, and postcolonial literatures. We will consider literatures of Diaspora, migration, and globalization. And we will consider the place of modernism in this global literary geography.

Grading

Grading likely will be based on two papers (one close reading essay and one research essay), a final exam, class participation, and periodic response papers.

Texts

O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro