76 376 - Genre Studies

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Carnegie Mellon University

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This is a companion class to Major Works of Modern Fiction in that it focuses on those writers one needs to know about in order to understand the literature of our time. The class deals with about half a dozen signal writers who best express the writing of their time, and have most influenced writers who came after them. The term ?modern? is flexible in its range, sometimes including everything from Shakespeare or Gutenberg on. Our range will be more defined, starting roughly with Thomas Hardy and ending with Wallace Stevens, or the period roughly from 1890 to 1925. We shall read the essential selections from poets like Hardy, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, T.S.Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, and samples from a couple of others like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane. Our concern will be to become familiar with an important body of work, and also to develop or abilities to read, understand and comment on poetry.

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9.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cmu.edu/

Phone Number:

(412) 268-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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