2nd semester 2010
English Literature IV: Modern and Postmodern (1901-present) Instructor: Daniel J. Bauer Ph.D.
Preferred textbook: The Norton Anthology English Literature THE MAJOR AUTHORS 8th edition.
20th century British Literature offers students an opportunity to become familiar with some of the most popular and acclaimed English writers of our time. The literature will show a distinctly "English" feel for life, values and history which ought to set it apart from literature in English which we find, for example, in 20th century United States.
Requirements include (of course) faithful class attendance and participation, a mid- term and final examination, and three reflective journals of 4 pages (A-4 sized) in length.
The authors this course will cover include Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence,Katherine Mansfield, T.S.
Eliot, and Salman Rushdie. Most of the literature will be in the form of short stories, but we will also read poetry.
An important writer such as Graham Greene is not included in the anthology, but the instructor will provide at least one Greene story in a separate handout.