Surveys the major literary trends in prose and poetry from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. Provides students with a grounding in the major authors and motifs of 20th- and 21st-century in literature in conjunction with political and cultural changes across the periods.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Critical Studies in English

Taught by Cheryl Higashida.

Only binge-worthy selection—rotten tomatoes rating of 98 or above—is on the reading list. Short stories by writers like Kafka, A.S. Byatt, Marquez, Gibson, or poems by poets like Elizabeth Bishop, Stevens, Frost, Auden, Muir. With no heavy tomes this class should be manageable during a busy semester. You will learn how poems and stories are put together and the related tools to decipher their meaning. For each poem or short story there will be a video lecture presentation available on Canvas plus in-class, in an actual classroom, further explication and discussion. The aim of this class is utter comprehension of the literary material so that when you respond to the material you respond not with dread but with pleasure.

Taught by Raza Ali Hasan.

Taught by Janice Ho.

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Surveys the major literary trends in prose and poetry from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. Provides students with a grounding in the major authors and motifs of 20th- and 21st-century in literature in conjunction with political and cultural changes across the periods.

Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Critical Studies in English

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“For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write. Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted to describe it.” (Sherwood Anderson, “The Book of the Grotesque”)

Many American writers have been moved by the impulse that grips Anderson’s old man. What is the grotesque and why has it dominated the work of so many twentieth and twenty-first-century writers? In this course we will try to find out. Our reading will include fiction and poetry by William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Toomer, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Paley, and Karen Russell.

Please contact me for further information (Jeremy.Green@Colorado.EDU).

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In this course, we will explore the remarkable literary innovations that developed during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We will focus in particular on modernism, postmodernism, and the contemporary, with close attention to the work of major writers, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett and Toni Morrison.

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