ENN 240 - Literature of the City

Institution:

CUNY LaGuardia Community College

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Description:

This course is designed to introduce students to the literature of the city. Students will explore important urban themes, social issues, and cultural developments in the short stories, essays, poems, autobiographies, plays, and novels of major city writers such as Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Frank O'Hara, Grace Paley, Anna Deveare Smith, Chang-Rae Lee, John A. William, Hanif Kureishi, and Oscar Hijuelos. Also popular art forms such as journalism, song lyrics, and film may be examined. Students will read and discuss issues of contemporary urban literary magazines like New York Stories. There will be one or more field trips.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.lagcc.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 482-7200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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