ENG 4420 - Twentieth- Century British Literature

Institution:

CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Subject:

English

Description:

3 hours; 3 credits A multi-genre examination of works of literary, cultural, and historical significance, this course will discuss such move - ments as high modernism, post-war realism, and postmodernism, as well as recent literary developments on the British Isles. Poetry, drama, short fiction, and novels will be included, as may films and works of nonfiction. Their intellectual, ideo logical, and aesthetic contexts will be emphasized. Colonial and independence fiction from throughout the British Empire may be covered, as may Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English texts. Authors to be studied might include Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Rushdie, Heaney, and Ishiguro. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.baruch.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(646) 312-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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