English 45C

Other Readings and Media

Conrad, J.: Lord Jim; Faulkner, W.: Absalom, Absalom!; Kingston, M. H.: The Woman Warrior; Naipaul, V.S.: The Mimic Men; Morrison, T.: Beloved; Woolf, V.: Mrs. Dalloway; there will also be a course reader containing selected works by W.E.B. Dubois, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and others.

Description

This course is an introduction to literature written in English mainly between the late 19 th century and the late 20 th century. There will be two kinds of emphases running through the course�one paid to the formal innovations credited to the significant authors of this period, the other paid to the socio-political conditions surrounding their aesthetic achievements. In particular, we will consider the development of English literature in the context of competing British and American empires and the globalization of English.