ENG 115 - The Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Novel in English

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course will examine novels written in English during the last sixty years'works produced after the two cataclysmic World Wars of the last century and the collapse of colonialism in places like India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The last half of the century were nation-changing and tumultuous decades, characterized by cultural collisions and transformations that have produced a rich and rewarding literature. Thus some of the novels considered in this course have been written by writers emigrating to the West from countries like India, Africa, and Sri Lanka. Some of it is written by writers who have stayed put in their native lands, and whose work reflects the substantial changes occasioned there by the end of colonialism and sometimes fierce resistance to these changes. Many, but not all, of the novels assigned in this course can be called "Post-modernist." Like many of the literary works produced early in the century, the literature of the second half of the twentieth century often disavows narratives that in previous centuries largely explained and ordered life. Different instructors of this course will naturally choose to focus on different writers. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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