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English 10C-3 - Spring, 2013
Literatures in English III: 1900-Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Tirapelle, Grace
CRN:
42330
Time:
TR 9:00-10:20
Location:
101 Olson
Description
English 10C is the third course in a sequence intended to prepare students for upper-division work in the English major. Twentieth- and twenty-first century literatures across the Anglophone world both reflect and construct a rapidly shifting, increasingly globalized world. In this reading- and writing-intensive course, students will study literature from different national, cultural, and gender-, class-, and-race-based perspectives in order to understand the issues facing this world. We will practice close-reading and New Historicist methods; study the emergence, basic styles, and social contexts of literary-historical movements and traditions from realism to postmodernism; consider genre-based and formal concerns in prose, poetry, drama, and film; explore theoretical approaches to reading that include considerations of race, gender, social space, and technology; and further develop the connection between literary criticism and analytical writing.
Grading
Explication essay: 10%
2 shorter writing assignments (5-6 pages ea.): 30%
Quizzes/Participation: 10%
Research paper: 30%
Final Exam 20%
Texts
Tracks
, Erdrich
Youth: Scenes From Provincial Life II
, Coetzee
Jazz
, Morrison
The Things They Carried
, O'Brien
Dubliners
, Joyce
Howl
, Ginsberg