ENGL 3006V is also offered in Fall 2024
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Fall 2024 | ENGL 3006V Section 001: Honors: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (32096)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Honors
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor honors student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 364
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 20 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 Description:
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Readings from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century; including the realists' and regionalists' response to the growth of industrial capitalism, Modernism in the 1920s, and the issues which united and divided the country throughout the 20th century.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32096/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 March 2017
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