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English 10C-1 - Spring, 2013
Literatures in English III: 1900-Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Franks, Matt
CRN:
42328
Time:
MWF 9:00-9:50
Location:
105 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 and postcolonialism in British, American, and Anglophone literatures. This course will focus on several thematic and theoretical genealogies across and between the Atlantic, including colonialism and race, gender and sexuality, and transnationalism. We will give special attention to how these issues are articulated through the formal innovations and assemblages central to twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts.
In addition to required texts listed below, a Course Reader will be available at the Davis Copy Shop including poems from T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Derek Walcott, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Cherríe Moraga, short stories from Richard Wright, Maxine Hong Kingston, Zadie Smith, and Sherman Alexie, and essays on literary theory.
Grading
First close reading essay 15%
Second close reading essay 25%
Oral Presentation 10%
Quizzes 15%
Final 15%
Participation 20%
Texts
Quicksand
, Nella Larsen
Sound and the Fury
, William Faulkner
The Waves
, Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea
, Jean Rhys
Cloud Nine
, Caryl Churchill