ENG315 Seminar in Literature and Cultural Context
Students will examine how literary texts reflect and impact their cultural setting. We are born as individuals into a formed world. How does this cultural context limit us and inspire us? How do writers mirror these environmental factors, and how do these factors, in turn, help to inform and alter the writers? Studies of such topics as women and war, the Romantic revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, postcolonial literature, and contemporary Latina writers will explore these questions. Reading of critical texts and writing of critical papers will be required. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: English 115 and 247.
Prerequisite
ENG115, ENG247