Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
Course Number:
ENG00105I
Course Description:
This module introduces students to the exciting terrain of American literature by focusing on its period of profoundest literary and geopolitical influence, from the First World War to the early twenty-first century. This was an age that witnessed imperial expansion, social turmoil, massive industrial and technological change, and the development of mass media and mass cultural forms such as film and television. The literary content of the module comes from right across the period, and students will engage with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts within which this literature was written and read. After an introductory lecture that sets the context of American life in the wake of the First World War, we begin our journey by considering the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. We take in modernist poetry and mid-century drama, before engaging with the fiction and poetry of the postmodernist period.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00105I/latest
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