WRI 349 - Literature Seminar:Classic Modernism

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Naropa University

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In this survey course, we read and discuss many of the great innovations in literary style and composition in prose and verse in the period between 1910 and 1930. Writers include Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Toomer, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Langston Hughes and Marianne Moore. The final third of the term is spent on a close reading of Joyce's Ulysses. Accompanying the primary texts are essays by the above authors and others on specific features of modernist poetry and narrative. Requirements include response papers and a substantial final paper on some aspect(s) of Ulysses. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.naropa.edu

Phone Number:

(303) 444-0202

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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