ENGL 266 English Literature: 20th-Century Writers • 5 Cr.
Department
Division
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.
Outcomes:
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- 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.
