ENG, LIT 211-212 - Readings in American Literature

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Daemen University

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Description:

(211 only) Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Writing Intensive. During the first semester, emphasis will be placed upon the “becoming” of American literature and the development of an identity that is communicated in specifically American letters. The second semester will carry through with Whitman (whose early poetry will terminate the first semester’s study) and present a different set of complexities from those of early America: industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, among others. It will trace the development of the literature and the aesthetic theory of a second “new” America — and take that development to the present. Prerequisite: LIT 112 or permission of instru ctor. Offered As Nee

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6.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.daemen.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 839-3600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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