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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 376 Literature and the Political Imagination

3 Credit(s)

The course studies ways authors use imaginative literature to respond to political situations and to voice moral and political beliefs. It probes such themes as war and conquest, wealth, race, sex, but its main emphasis is on language and organization and this emphasis requires close analysis of style and structure. Authors may include Dickens, Forster, and Conrad, Dos Passos, Hansberry, Baraka, and Malraux, Brecht, and Silone.

Diversity Area: International

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202