ENGL 266 - English Literature: 20th-Century Writers

5 CR

Surveys the major figures and movements of modern British literature. Authors and works vary, but typically include T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Auden, Thomas, Woolf, and Forster.

Recommended: ENGL 101 or ENGL 201 or a literature course in the 100 series.
Course Outcomes

To learn the role of Twentieth-Century Literature in the larger history of English literature
To understand how the economic, social, political, and religious conditions of the 20th century affected poets, novelists, and writers of the time.
To understand and be able to use the terminology of literature and literary analysis
To become adept at the processes of analysis and synthesis, of your reading and in your writing.
To develop the skill of asking insightful questions of literature and examining the various responses.
To become comfortable with ambiguity and to move away from needing precise yes or no/black and white answers.
To develop oral presentation skills (individual and/or as part of a group).
To practice good group skills: how to give useful feedback, and how to make use of feedback you receive.
To develop self-assessment skills.
To improve inferential reading skills, using prose, drama, and poetry.

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