ENGL 116

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Introduction to American Literature

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Credit: 3 hours.

American literature speaks in distinctive dialects that pre-date the arrival of European explorers in the Renaissance, range across centuries and continents, and intermingle a rich variety of racial, ethnic, and gendered perspectives. Genres examined in this course might include lyric poems, dystopian novels, horror stories, seduction narratives, slave narratives, political speeches, or postmodern plays. Writers studied might include Walt Whitman, Columbus, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Junot Díaz, Harriet Beecher Stowe, David Foster Wallace, Martin Luther King, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 116 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32294	Lecture-Discussion	D	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	150 English Building	Stewart, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: FA 23 ENGL 116 - Introduction to American Literature - Victoria Stewart: This course emphasizes the various social, political, and economic upheavals that mark American lives within a survey of American literature, covering periods from the early colonization period and the Civil War, to the Civil Rights era and beyond. Though we might think of the United States as having a linear progress narrative with the eventual output of what we call “American literature,” our goal in this course will be to examine these assumptions and attempt to understand how and why we define American literature as we do. In this endeavor, we will read and discuss a variety of genres (essays and speeches, fiction and nonfiction, “canon” and “non-canon” alike) in order explore the tropes, forms, and ideas woven into these texts. We’ll think about how these ideas reappear and disappear during different social, political, and economic moments in American history to ultimately gain a broader understanding of literature’s function within the field of American Studies.