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  • ENGL 063: 20th-Century American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 058]. This course surveys American literature across the twentieth-century, considering its formal innovations in the wake of modernism, the two World Wars, the Cold War and postmodernity. Authors treated might include: James, Wharton, Eliot, Pound, Faulkner, Hemingway, Rhys, Baldwin, Ginsberg, Plath, Pynchon, Walcott, and Morrison. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 064: Modern America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. [Formerly ENGL 084]. This course is concerned with American literature and cultural life from the turn of the century until about 1950. The course emphasizes the period between the two World Wars and emphasizes as well the intellectual and cultural milieu in which the writers found themselves. Works by the following writers are usually included: James, Eliot, Frost, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, West, Stevens, DuBois, Williams, Wharton, Stein, West, Moore, and Hemingway. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 065: 20th-Century British Novel

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course traces the development of the novel across the twentieth-century. The course will consider the formal innovations of the modern novel (challenges to realism, stream of consciousness, fragmentation, etc.) in relation to major historical shifts in the period. Authors treated might include: Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Cather, Faulkner, Hemingway, Achebe, Greene, Rhys, Baldwin, Naipaul, Pynchon, Rushdie, and Morrison. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 066: Literature and Law

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. An introduction not only to representations of the law and legal processes in literary texts, but also to the theories of reading, representation, and interpretation that form the foundation of both legal and literary analysis. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 067.20th: Century Literature of the Americas

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course situates major U.S. literary movements of the twentieth century within the political and cultural histories of the Americas. With this more global context we will survey writing about revolution, imperialism, social protest, feminism and sexuality, and the influence of the "boom" writers and magical realism on U.S. culture. Writers might include Willa Cather, Michelle Cliff, Coco Fusco, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gabriel Garc_a Marquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and William Carlos Williams. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 069: Poetry and Poetics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. What is poetry and what place does it have among literary forms What is its relation to culture, history, and our sense of speakers and audiences This course will focus on various problems in poetic practice and theory, ranging from ancient theories of poetry in Plato and Aristotle to contemporary problems in poetics. In some semesters a particular school of poets may be thefocus; in others a historical issue of literary transmission, or a problem of poetic genres, such as lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry, may be emphasized. The course will provide a basic knowledge of scansion in English with some sense of the historical development of metrics. This course is a good foundation for those who want to continue to study poetry in literary history and for creative writers concentrating on poetry. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 070: Latina/o Literature and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. A survey of cultural productions by Latinas/os (i.e. people of Latin American descent who have been raised in the U.S.) that usually will focus on the twentieth century, but might at times examine earlier periods instead. The course will take a culturally and historically informed approach to a wide range of novels, poems, plays, and films, and will sometimes include visual art and music. Writers and artists might include Am_rico Paredes, Piri Thomas, Cherr_e Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Junot D_az, Cristina Garc_a, El Teatro Campesino, John Leguizamo, Carmen Lomas Garza, the Hernandez Brothers, and Los Tigres del Norte. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 071: Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. This course will serve as an introduction to a particularly rich arena of literature in English. It will also help students to begin to understand many other racial subtexts underlying the culture wars in America, where too often, in the full glare of cameras, an anguished voice informs the audience that 'as an African, I cannot expect justice in this America.' See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 072: Asian American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. An overview of Asian American literature from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This course covers a wide range of Asian American novels, plays, and poems, situating them in the contexts of American history and minority communities and considering the variety of formal strategies these different texts take. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 073.19th: Century Literatures in Dialogue

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. What dialogues have defined and constituted American and other literatures This course examines critical intersections between different literatures of the 19th century, addressing questions of race, ethnicity, and culture. Previous versions of this course have included such titles as "Postbellum/Pre-Harlem" and "Victorian Literature and Ireland." Our readings will consider a range of literary interactions, and will take a self-consciously comparative and intertextual approach. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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