Group III: Special Topics I (Fall 2025)
- ENGL 200
- ENGL 290
N/A
one-way Exclusions
- The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, 2nd Edition
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Writings
- The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
ENGL 486: British and American Literary Modernisms 1880-1920
This course will explore the question of what it meant to write the 鈥渕odern鈥 in British and American poetry and fiction from late Victorianism and the fin-de-si猫cle until just past the First World War. Through refining our skills in close and careful reading we will query especially shifting understandings and representations of culture, aesthetics, art, poetics, value, ethics, and meaning. We will be encountering literature by a range of writers such as Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. We will also look briefly at contemporary modernist visual artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Assessments
Grading Components
- Group presentation (20%)
- Attendance and active participation (20%)
- 5-6 minutes of leading discussion (5%)
- In-class test (30%)
- In-class essay, including drafts (25%)
**Subject to change**
This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
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With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once.
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