May 04, 2024  
2020-2021 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) 
    
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ENGH 253 - 20th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

4 credits
Through an examination of representative texts from Britain and its former colonies in the twentieth century and beyond, this course examines the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality. Readings may include such authors as Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett, Auden, Larkin, Pinter, Churchill, Quin, Ballard, Rushdie, Winterson, Carter, Naipaul, Coetzee, Achebe, Ngugi and others. Colonialism, war, cities, gender and sexuality, popular culture, science and technology, globalization, language and consciousness may feature as historical and thematic concerns. CLA-Breadth/Humanities



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