ENGL 452

Fall 2015

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American Lit 1945-Present
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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64568
Lecture-Discussion
1G
2:00PM -3:15PM
TR
219 Gregory Hall
Hunt, I
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/15-12/09/15
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
In the period after World War II the US experienced a barrage of momentous events: multiple wars, a diminished then abruptly widened wealth gap, the triumphs and dashed hopes of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and growing waves of feminism. A new range of voices and literary forms emerged to clarify and influence these changes on the national landscape, changes that redrew lines of class, race, gender, and nationality. Reading novels, poetry, essays, and plays, we will ask how writers redefined not only what it means to belong to these categories of identity and class, but also what it means to resist respective forms of exclusion. We will also consider how writers represent the traumas racial and gender violence, the precarity of poverty and financial hardship, and the possibilities of a better future. In the process, we will historicize the various conventions of modernism, realism, and postmodernism and question how well they account for an author?s literary ancestry and artistic project. Requirements include active participation in class discussions, regular brief reading responses, a group presentation, two formal essays, one exam, and possible pop quizzes. Authors include Arthur Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Charles Wright, Tom�s Rivera, Ana Castillo, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
64567
Lecture-Discussion
1U
2:00PM -3:15PM
TR
219 Gregory Hall
Hunt, I
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/15-12/09/15
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
In the period after World War II the US experienced a barrage of momentous events: multiple wars, a diminished then abruptly widened wealth gap, the triumphs and dashed hopes of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and growing waves of feminism. A new range of voices and literary forms emerged to clarify and influence these changes on the national landscape, changes that redrew lines of class, race, gender, and nationality. Reading novels, poetry, essays, and plays, we will ask how writers redefined not only what it means to belong to these categories of identity and class, but also what it means to resist respective forms of exclusion. We will also consider how writers represent the traumas racial and gender violence, the precarity of poverty and financial hardship, and the possibilities of a better future. In the process, we will historicize the various conventions of modernism, realism, and postmodernism and question how well they account for an author?s literary ancestry and artistic project. Requirements include active participation in class discussions, regular brief reading responses, a group presentation, two formal essays, one exam, and possible pop quizzes. Authors include Arthur Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Charles Wright, Tom�s Rivera, Ana Castillo, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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