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106-273/373 American Liberals and Moderns

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator: Garry Kinnane.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

• Objectives: Students who complete this subject successfully will have:
• gained a general understanding of a significant body of American fiction in the period from the late nineteenth century to World War II;
• gained a working notion of the characteristics of liberalism and modernism in American writing of the period;
• developed a close understanding of each of the set texts;
• become familiar with a substantial body of secondary reading in American cultural history and politics of the period, and with relevant theoretical and critical discourses.

Timetable: First semester

Content:

This subject is a comparative study of American fiction representing the liberal tradition and the beginnings of modernism, ranging from the late nineteenth century to the early 1940s.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Dos Passos J U. S. A. Penguin
• Faulkner W The Sound and the Fury Penguin
• Fitzgerald S Tender is the Night Penguin
• Hemingway E A Farewell to Arms Penguin
• James H What Maisie Knew Penguin Classic
• McCullers C The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Penguin
• Miller H Tropic of Capricorn Grove
• Stein G Three Lives Penguin
• Steinbeck J The Grapes of Wrath. Wharton E The House of Mirth Penguin Classic

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106-273/373 American Liberals and Moderns

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Garry Kinnane.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will have:

• gained a general understanding of a significant body of American fiction in the period from the late nineteenth century to World War II;
• gained a working notion of the characteristics of liberalism and modernism in American writing of the period;
• developed a close understanding of each of the set texts;
• become familiar with a substantial body of secondary reading in American cultural history and politics of the period, and with relevant theoretical and critical discourses.

Content:

This subject is a comparative study of American fiction representing the liberal tradition and the beginnings of modernism, ranging from the late nineteenth century to the early 1940s.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Dos Passos J U. S. A. Penguin
• Faulkner W The Sound and the Fury Penguin
• Fitzgerald S Tender is the Night Penguin
• Hemingway E A Farewell to Arms Penguin
• James H What Maisie Knew Penguin Classic
• McCullers C The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Penguin
• Miller H Tropic of Capricorn Grove
• Stein G Three Lives Penguin
• Steinbeck J The Grapes of Wrath. Wharton E The House of Mirth Penguin Classic

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