Twentieth-Century British Literature

A multi-genre examination of works of literary, cultural, and historical significance, this course will discuss such movements as high modernism, post-war realism, and postmodernism, as well as recent literary developments on the British Isles. Poetry, drama, short fiction, and novels will be included, as may films and works of nonfiction. Their intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic contexts will be emphasized. Colonial and independence fiction from throughout the British Empire may be covered, as may Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English texts. Authors to be studied might include Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Rushdie, Heaney, and Ishiguro. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.