English 10C-2 - Spring, 2014

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Recker, Laurel
CRN: 22429
Time: TR 12:10-1:30
Location: 251 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: 30%
Participation/Attendance: 10%
Final Exam: 20%

Texts

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
Dubliners, James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia
ourse Reader with stories, poems, and essays