ENGLISH 375 - Language,Literature,and Social/Cultural Difference

Institution:

Hope College

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An examination of literary works as cultural artifacts, examining how they not only record and reflect the dynamics of social and cultural difference but also influence or resist change. Under investigation will be conflicts and modifications in cultural identification, how literature draws upon the lives and times of its authors, and how race, class, gender, and other forms of difference generate social and cultural tensions and express and embody them in literature. Recent topics include African Literature; Religion, Race and Gender in the Literature of Antebellum America; Shakespeare's Sisters; Salinger and Potok; Romanticism and Revolution; The Latina/o Novel; Culture and 19th- Century American Novels; "American" Autobiography; Sentimental Fictions; BannedBooks; Literature in an Anxious Age (1865-2003). Three topics are offered annually: one dealing with ethnic American literature (Fall), History of the English Language (Fall), and African American Literature (Spring). May be repeated for additional credit with a different topic. Two or Four Credits Both Semesters

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hope.edu

Phone Number:

(616) 395-7000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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