ENGL 3222 is also offered in Spring 2025
ENGL 3222 is also offered in Spring 2024
Spring 2024 | ENGL 3222 Section 001: American Novel from 1900 (65944)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 211
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In this course, we will read and study novels of twentieth and twenty-first century American writers, from early 1900's realism through Modernists (e.g., Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald) to more contemporary writers (e.g., Baldwin, Ellison, Erdrich, Roth, Pynchon). We will explore each text in relation to literary, cultural, and historical developments and question the narrative and stylistic strategies specific to each work.
- Class Description:
- This course will examine the development of the twentieth-century U.S. novel, situating that development in the historical contexts of the century. We'll consider realist and regionalist responses to the diversification and urbanization of the country, modernist negotiations of industrialism and changing social norms, proletarian literary protests of the intersection of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy, and a range of responses to post-World War II American society. Central to our study will be a focus on what Toni Morrison has termed "playing in the dark": the way American fiction uses figures and representations of racial blackness in order to accomplish its aesthetic, epistemological, and political priorities. The twentieth-century American novel has played a major role in shaping current understandings of race in the United States, a process we'll work to reconstruct in class conversations.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65944/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2016
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