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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2019

L14 E Lit 315Topics in American Literature: History and the 20th Century American Novel3.0 Units
Description:Norman Mailer titled his book on the 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon "Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History." The main title, taken from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach," refers to the physical and moral confusion of war and of warring historical forces generally; the subtitle suggests more than the status of Mailer's book as a historical novel. History is itself a "novel," Mailer implies, filled with sometimes larger than life characters and taking on meaning only as it is told and retold by successive interpreters. The novel is "history" in that it belongs to and reflects its times and, insofar as it impresses itself on the minds of its readers, contributes to the making of history. The course will explore several novelists' constructions of American history through the 1970s. Readings will likely include William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!," a microcosmic history of the South from ante-bellum times through the early 20th century; selections from John Dos Passos's epic "U.S.A"; Philip Roth's counterfactual "The Plot Against America," which imagines a Fascist takeover of the country; Don DeLillo's 'Libra," a fiction about Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy Assassination; Mailer's "Armies of the Night," a record of and meditation on the turbulence of the late 1960s: Toni Morrison's 'Song Of Solomon," a saga of the Afro-American experience across most of a century; and possibly E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime," an inventive tragicomedy about race and culture early in the early 1900s. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, SDArchHUMArtHUMBUHUME LitTCENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 315AFrequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----10:00A-11:30ACupples I / 216 MilderNo Final2090
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