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English 10C-1 - Winter, 2017
Literatures in English III: 1900-Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Wander, Ryan
CRN:
22760
Time:
MWF 12:10-1:00
Location:
167 Olson
Description
English 10C is the last of the three parts of the Literatures in English sequence, a series of classes intended to prepare English majors for upper-division courses. As such, it is a reading and writing-intensive course. Over the course of the quarter, we will read British and US literature written between the turn of the twentieth century and the present day. As we proceed, we will focus on key aesthetic and intellectual developments in poetry and fiction and the historical contexts of these developments: realism and empire; US literary naturalism on the frontier and in the wake of the Great Depression; regional writing, gender, and queerness; modernism and (dis)unity; and postmodernism, pastiche, and history.
Grading
Essay 1 (close reading): 20%
Essay 2 (research): 25%
Final Exam: 25%
Short In-class Writing Assignments and Quizzes: 10%
Short At-home Writing Assignments: 10%
Participation: 10%
Texts
Of Mice and Men
, John Steinbeck
Passing
, Nella Larson
The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire
, Jack London
The Country of the Pointed Firs
, Sarah Orne Jewett
Steer Toward Rock
, Fae Myenne Ng
Mrs. Dalloway
, Virginia Woolf
Uncle Tom’s Children
, Richard Wright