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