ENGL 382 - Survey of American Poetry and Prose II

Institution:

The University of Virginia's College at Wise

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Description:

This course surveys a significant range of works and introduces the rise of various American literatures from the post-bellum period-when American literature came of age-to the post-modern era. We will begin the class by foregrounding the tension in American literature between the enormous yearning to forge a new literary and cultural identity and the need to come to terms with a European past. We will pay particular attention to the emergence of modern narrative and poetic voices and forms in their historical and regional contexts. Focusing on the interrelation of literature and culture, we will examine how issues of the formation of the modern American self, the relationship between the individual and the American Dream, language and reality, politics and war, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and especially race, affect the developing idea of our national literature and provide an interpretive framework for our readings. Students will consult both primary and secondary sources and will formulate their responses both in class discussion and in writing.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

https://www.uvawise.edu/

Phone Number:

(276) 328-0100

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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