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Summer 2021 | ENGL 3006W Section 301: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (81441)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
College of Continuing Education
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Summer Session 14 wk
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of US literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/historical-survey-british-literatures-i
- Class Description:
This course will survey major U.S. literary movements, writers, and cultural developments from the mid-1800s through the late 1900s. We'll read for the ways literary genres and movements respond to the historical shifts of the modern era in America, such as the rise of an industrial capitalist economy and major urban centers and attendant shifts in population; changing sexual and gender norms; major wars and political conflicts; and shifting ideological notions of America's place in an increasingly globalized world. Central to our reading will be an examination of the ways that American race relations shaped the priorities of a wide range of literary and cultural tendencies. Writers studied will likely include figures like Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Robert Lowell, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/81441/1215
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2016
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