English 10C - Winter, 2012

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Jerng, Mark
CRN: 32471
Time: TR 1:40-3:00
Location: 101 Olson

Description

ENL 10C is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence. This is a reading-and writing-intensive class, designed to prepare you for upper-division courses in the English major. We will study literature from 1900 to the present, covering the broad intellectual, aesthetic, and philosophical movement from modernism to postmodernism in British, American, and Anglophone literatures. While internalizing the major tenets of these periodizations, though, we will also complicate these understandings by focusing on several topics that resonate within both periodizations: the vexed relationship to the past; immigration and migration; nationalisms, civilization and race; gender and geography; colonial and postcolonial formations.

In addition to required texts listed below, a Course Reader will be available at Davis Copy Shop including poems, short stories, novellas, essays, and excerpts from longer works: Virginia Woolf, Room of One's Own (excerpt); The Common Reader (excerpt); Henry James, The American Scene (excerpt); Gertrude Stein, "Melanctha"; Jean Toomer, Cane (excerpts); poetry from T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Derek Walcott.

Grading

Three Quizzes testing key literary concepts and aspects of literary history 30% (10% Each)
Two Papers 40% (20% Each)
Final Exam 15%
Participation 15%

Texts

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
Foe, J.M. Coetzee