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Sarah N Terry
ENGL 111
Seattle Campus
Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.
Class description
What does it mean to be "modern"? How do modernist writers working in different genres grapple with similar ideas, issues, and problems of this period using different forms of expression? What are the results of these different solutions? This course will focus on the language and craft of writing through our examination of experimental, twentieth-century literature. We will read, discuss and write about literature and critical essays that challenge traditional notions of the relationship between author, narrator and text. We will begin by writing provisional definitions of what "modernism" means, as a period, a movement, and potentially a style of writing and thinking about writing. Then we will use and modify our definitions as we analyze a variety of voices in novels, poetry, short fiction, and critical essays. We will look at the ways our authors have conceived of narrative obligation and identity, and also at the ways critics before us have responded to these writers' works. By reading and producing criticism about these sometimes revolutionary works, we will become attuned to the assumptions we make as readers, enabling us to become more sensitive writers.
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