Academic Catalog 2015-2016 
    
    Jul 21, 2026  
Academic Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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EGL 241 - (260) From the Greatest Generation to the Generation Gap: American Fiction, 1900-1960

Course Units: 1
(Winter; Selley) Offered intermittently. This course will examine major developments in the American novel and short story from the turn of the century to 1960, focusing primarily on the Modernist period. The course will treat such issues as the relationships of science, technology, and religion to the literary imagination, as well as the impact of the World Wars, psychology, urbanism, feminism, consumerism, and racism on literature of the period. Authors might include Chopin, Henry James, Anderson, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Wright, Salinger, and others. Common Curriculum CC: HUL



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