ENGL 553

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Seminar Later American Lit

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of American studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 553 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32356	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	113 English Building	Parker, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Title: Amer Fiction in 1920s & 1930s Section Info: Topic Section M: American Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s This course, deliberately organized more by time-period than by any particular argument about the time-period, will study a wide range of novels and stories and their varying refractions of formal, historical, and social interests, including Modernism and stream-of-consciousness; race, ethnicity, and indigeneity; poverty; region; and literary and social value. We will also address questions about gender, agency, representation, narrative form, literary history, and close reading that I might bring to almost any course. We will read canonical works as well as works that rarely appear on a syllabus, and we will read a modest assortment of related materials: works by the same or related writers, contemporary magazines, contemporary responses, history, criticism, etc. Prospective seminar members may find it particularly helpful to have the chance to read or reread The Sound and the Fury in the context of a class. This seminar will work by discussion. If you do not like to participate in discussion, then do not sign up for this seminar. Registered students can expect an emailed reading assignment for the first class approximately a week before classes begin. Reading list (highly tentative): Ernest Hemingway, selections from The Short Stories; William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Nella Larsen, Passing; Dorothy Parker, selections from Complete Stories; Tess Slesinger, The Unpossessed; Tom Kromer, Waiting for Nothing; John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath; D?Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; and selections from The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.