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ENGL 2058: 20th/21st Century Literature

Surveys the major literary trends in prose and poetry from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. Provides students with a grounding in the major authors and motifs of 20th- and 21st-century in literature in conjunction with political and cultural changes across the...

ENGL 2058: 20th and 21st Century Literature (Fall 2019)

Surveys the major literary trends in prose and poetry from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. Provides students with a grounding in the major authors and motifs of 20th- and 21st-century in literature in conjunction with political and cultural changes across the...

"The Gray Day" by George Grosz (1921)

ENGL 2058-001: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Maymester, Summer 2019)

“For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write. Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted...

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ENGL 2058-001: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature

In this course, we will explore the remarkable literary innovations that developed during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We will focus in particular on modernism, postmodernism, and the contemporary, with close attention to the work of major writers, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Samuel...