ENGL 521 - Modern America Through Literature

This graduate course offers a sampling of modern American literature from the early to late twentieth-century. Students will examine the concepts of America and The American, how writers have positioned themselves in relation to society, and have represented The Other in their construction of a modern American culture, and the development of a quintessentially American aesthetic sensibility.

Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.

Credits: 3