The Lost Generation: American literature between the World Wars

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Course Description

This course explores American literature between the World Wars, tracing how themes of trauma, loss, disillusion, and dislocation, as well as issues of race, gender, and class, engendered vibrant "modernist" literary experimentation in this era. Writers may include John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Tillie Olsen.

Cross Listed Courses

Grading Basis

ROP - Letter or Credit/No Credit

Min

5

Max

5

Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?

No

Course Component

Seminar

Enrollment Optional?

No

This course has been approved for the following WAYS

Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry (AII)

Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?

No

Programs

AMSTUD125C is a completion requirement for: