ENLT 393 Jazz Age and the Harlem Renassiance

Arts & Letters-Literature. Cultural Diversity.

A study of early twentieth-century American literature (called modernism), from World War I through the 1930s. The course explores the work of white modernist writers (many of whom were part of the expatriate community in Paris during the period) alongside that of the African American writers of the same period who lived in the United States and participated in the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Among the writers studied may be Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, H.D. William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Nella Larson, and W.E.B Du Bois.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Take CORE-110 or HNR-150 or an OC, Oral Communication, course previously or concurrently.

Course Types

LIT, CD, ND

Distribution

LIT,CD,ND

Offered

Odd Year Fall Semester