EGL 239 - American Literature and Culture: 1900-1960

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) (Offered once every four years) This course will survey American poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and perhaps one play of the pre-Modernist and Modernist periods, putting the works into a cultural and historical context. The course will show how urbanism, psychology, science, secularism, “The Great War” and World War II, consumerism and feminism influenced literature of the period. Writers might include Henry Adams, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and/or Adrienne Rich. Poetry of the period will be generously represented on the syllabus. At least one recent film adaptation of a work from the period will be discussed. Prerequisite(s): EGL 100 or EGL 101 or EGL 102 or a grade of 5 on the AP English Literature or Language test. CC: HUL, HUM