English 10C - Winter, 2011

Literatures in English III: 1900 to Present

Class Information

Instructor: McMann, Mindi
CRN: 22422
Time: MWF 2:10-3:00
Location: 101 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. This is a writing and reading intensive course designed as part of a sequence to prepare majors to succeed in upper division courses. To that end, this will be a reading and writing intensive course. The course will focus on questions of nationalism, identity, and the circulation of people and ideas in a global context. WIth this in mind, the texts we will be reading will all be asking, some obliquely, some explicitly, how relationships to the self and to others are understood in a consistently unstable world.

Grading

Grading:
Participation and Quizzes: 15%
Short Writing Assignments: 15%
Close Reading Paper: 20%
Research Paper: 30%
Final Exam: 20%

Texts

Cloud Nine(1978), Churchill, Caryl
Blasted (1995), Kane, Sarah
Lolita (1955), Nabokvo, Vladimir
Anil's Ghost (2000), Ondaatje, Michael
Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Woolf, Virginia
Tropic of Orange (1997), Yamashita, Karen Tei