LITERATURE 123 - Fugitives From Utopia:The Writers of Post

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Claremont McKenna College

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War Poland. Faggen This course will consider the great literature of post-war Poland in the context of the major historical and social forces that have contributed to its development. Among the authors read will be Herbert, Milosz, Gombrowicz, Szymborska, Kolakowski, Lem, Baranczak, Swir, Singer, and Zagajewski. All major genres will be included with particular attention to the stunning body of poetry, some of the 20th century's very best. Offered occasionally. 125. 20th-Century English and Irish Poetry. Farrell This course will introduce English and Irish poetry of the 20th century, with special attention to the central figures of Hardy, Yeats, and Auden, but also including, among others, Houseman, Hopkins, the poets of World War One, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Hughes, and Heaney. Offered every other year. 126. 20th-Century Black Poetics. A. Bradley This course explores major figures and forms in black American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Topics will include vernacular versus. "standard"English; the influence of the blues, hip hop, and other black musical forms; poetry as protest; the spoken word movement; and the representation of racial identity in verse. Special consideration will be given to the poetry of Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Etheridge Knight, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Offered every other year.

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1.50

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www.claremontmckenna.edu/

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(909) 621-8000

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Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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