English 10C-1 - Winter, 2014

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Recker, Laurel
CRN: 62514
Time: TR 9:00-10:20
Location: 141 Olson

Description

Twentieth century literature is often viewed as a break with the past. This course will explore how this is true, how it isn’t, and how such a break creates a need to recover personal and collective histories. In particular, we will examine how this drive manifests as a formal obsession with individual and cultural memory in modern and postmodern Anglophone texts. In addition to the novels listed here, we will read a number of stories and poems (from the course reader). This is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence, spanning 1900 to the present. Please note that this is a reading and writing intensive course designed to prepare you for upper-division coursework in the English major.

Grading

Close reading essay: 20%
Midterm: 20%
Homework (including blogs):25%
Participation/Attendance: 10%
Annotated Bibliography: 5%
Final Exam: 20%

Texts

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Nobody Knows My Name, James Baldwin
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter