ENGL 25901 - American Modern:Experimental Fiction

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University of Chicago

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This course concentrates on the formal experiments of American fiction in the first three decades of the twentieth century. On the one hand, we examine those experiments within the context of a more general understanding of "modernism"-a context established through other genres (e.g., poetry) and other media (e.g., painting, photography, film). On the other, we locate these experiments within a broader cultural milieu-the world of war, mass production, consumer culture, and the age of jazz. Still, the primary engagement is with the texts themselves-major works by Charles Chesnutt, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Nella Lar sen. W. Brown. Spri

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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