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English 10C-3 - Winter, 2013
Literatures in English III: 1900 to Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Williamson, Alan B.
CRN:
74369
Time:
TR 12:10-1:30
Location:
1020 Wickson
Description
Our approach to Modernism could be called "the divided self" or "the unknown self." The advent of psychoanalysis expanded the areas of subjective experience considered significant--dreams, free associations--but at the same time made the self more mysterious, since many of our motivations were held to be unconscious. After a brief glance at Freud, we will examine the literary consequences of these changes in the "stream-of-consciousness" novel and the American "confessional" poetry of midcentury. We will conclude by looking at the intersection of individual and ethnic identity in a novel by a major Native American writer.
Grading
Participation 10%; two explication papers, 20% each; longer thematic paper, 25%; final exam, 25%.
Texts
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
, Sigmund Freud
To the Lighthouse
, Virginia Woolf
The Sound and the Fury
, William Faulkner
Ariel
, Sylvia Plath
Ceremony
, Leslie Marmon Silko