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ENGL 344

Modern American Literature

Undergraduate

Winter 2023

Topics

  • American modernism and technology
  • Close-reading methods
  • Imagism
  • Economy and literary form
  • Film and modernist form

Readings

  • Poor White
    Sherwood Anderson · Belt Publishing, 2018 · required
  • Flying Home and Other Stories
    Ralph Ellison · Vintage, 1996 · required
  • Cane
    Jean Toomer · Norton, 2011; other editions or online text accepted · required
  • Machinal
    Sophie Treadwell · Nick Hern Books, 1993 · required
  • Walt Whitman — To a Locomotive in Winter
    unspecified
  • Robert Frost — The Line Gang; An Encounter
    unspecified
  • T. S. Eliot — The Waste Land
    unspecified
  • Laura Winkiel — What Is Modernism?
    unspecified
  • Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and Amy Lowell — selected poems.
    unspecified
Sources