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English 10C-3 - Spring, 2015
Literatures in English III: 1900 to Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Thomas, George
CRN:
32393
Time:
TR 4:40-6:00
Location:
105 Olson
Description
This is a reading- and writing-intensive course designed to help prepare students for upper-division courses in the English major. Our focus will be on English-language literature since 1900. We will read poetry, short stories, novels, drama, and even a little literary theory. The class will be divided into four “Chapters” covering important paradigms: Modernism, Postmodernism, “Low” and Genre Literature, and the Postcolonial. We’ll read everything from canonical heavyweights like T.S. Eliot and William Faulkner to recent Sci-Fi authors like Octavia Butler. The goal is to help you become a dynamite close reader with a good working knowledge of Anglophone literature from the last 115 years.
Grading
Close Reading Papers: 15% x2
Research Paper: 20%
Shorter Writing Assignments and Blogs: 10%
Participation, Group Work, and Quizzes: 20%
Final Exam: 20%
Texts
Dubliners
, James Joyce
As I Lay Dying
, William Faulkner
Flight to Canada
, Ishmael Reed
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
, Tom Stoppard
Kindred
, Octavia Butler
Course Reader
, Ezra Pound, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Jean Toomer, Marianne Moore, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, and David Foster Wallace, among others.