ENGL 324 - The Resisting Reader

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Trinity College

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Description:

Using feminist, narratological, and reader-response approaches, we will re-examine a number of canonical American texts read "against the grain." That is, we shall pay attention to the inadvertent ways in which both central and marginal figures are distorted in order to create stories that re-enact central American myths of adventure, manliness, conquest, and manifest destiny. Authors will include Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, and possibly Stowe, Cather, Richard Wright, Mailer, and Erdrich, among others. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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