ENG 163 - Literature of New York

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

An examination of literary works set in New York that explore the city as the site of material ambition, romance, cultural diversity, wealth, poverty, and alienation. Discussions will revolve around the way the literature invites sociological as well as psychological analysis of the city's impact on human lives. Among the five or six works to be read in the course are such New York stories as the following: Melville's "Bartleby: A Story of Wall Street," James' Washington Square, Riis's How the Other Half Lives, Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (or H. Roth's Call It Sleep), Wharton's House of Mirth, Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Auster's City of Glass, Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Delillo's Cosmopolis, P. Roth's The Dying Animal, and Morrison's Jazz. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

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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