ENGL 869 - Senior Seminar:Over the Rainbow

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Trinity College

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Description:

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is, despite its sprawling length and mind-numbing complexity, arguably the most important and influential literary text to emerge from the U.S. of the 1960s. Both individually and in groups, concentrating on both social and literary contexts, we will use the methods of British cultural studies to investigate the conditions and constituents out of which Pynchon's daffy and difficult novel emerged, as well as the contexts in the discourses through which it was declared a "masterpiece" and endowed with literary value. Students taking this course should be skilled close readers and eager researchers, capable of thinking and arguing for themselves, yet also able and willing to work together to inventory one text's raw materials and enabling conditions, and map out that text's cultural meanings and effects. For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts tr 1.00 units, Seminar

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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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