ENG 162 - American Autobiography

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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An exploration of autobiographies and quasiautobiographies that tell the story of Americans from the early colonial period right up to the twentieth century. Discussions will revolve around the aesthetics of autobiography, the mixture of fiction and fact, and the construction of different "selves" that typify various strains of American intellectual thought as well as various cultural and social circumstances within different eras of American history. Approximately six works are chosen from such autobiographies as the following: Mary Rowlandson's History of Captivity, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, Adams' The Education of Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway's Moveable Feast, Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, Malcolm X's Autobiography, and Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude. 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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