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English 10C-1 - Fall, 2017
Literatures in English III: 1900-Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Dobbins, Gregory
CRN:
41760
Time:
MWF 1:10-2:00
Location:
148 Physics
Description
This is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence, with this installment focusing on Anglophone literature between 1900 and the present day. This sequence is designed to prepare majors to succeed in
upper division courses. To that end, this will be a reading and writing intensive course. The course will consider the complex and dynamic relationship among national and regional British, American, and postcolonial literatures. We will consider literatures of diaspora, migration, and globalization. And we will consider the place of modernism in this global literary geography. Our readings will include poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as the occasional manifesto and essay.
The specific works we will read are not yet selected, but will likely include works by W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Alan Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Samuel Beckett.
Grading
Grading will be based on two essays (one close reading essay and one research essay), a final exam, class participation, and several shorter assignments.
Texts
Dubliners
, James Joyce
The Waste Land
, T.S. Eliot
Mrs. Dalloway
, Virginia Woolf
Howl
, Alan Ginseberg
Waiting for Godot
, Samuel Beckett
Beloved
, Toni Morrison