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Catalogue 2013-2014 
    
Catalogue 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)


Intensive study of literatures of the twentieth century, with primary focus on British and postcolonial (Irish, Indian, Pakistani, South African, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, etc.) texts. Selections may focus on an author or group of authors, a genre (e.g., modern verse epic, drama, satiric novel, travelogue), or a topic (e.g., the economics of modernism, black Atlantic, Englishes and Englishness, themes of exile and migration).

Topic for 2013/14b: Goodbye to All That: Texts of the Great War and Beyond. An investigation of the Great War (1914-1918) and the long shadow it has cast on the British imagination. Materials may include the work of the war poets (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg), memoirs (Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth; Robert Graves’ Goodbye to All That), fiction (Rudyard Kipling’s The Gardener; Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly; D. H. Lawrence’s The Ladybird; Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Mrs. Dalloway; Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy; J. L. Carr’s A Month in the Country; Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong), films (All Quiet on the Western Front; Gallipoli), and music (Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem). Mr. Russell.

Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.



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