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Students will study American authors from 1900-1950, focusing on selected major figures in either poetry or the novel. Novelists such as Wharton, Lewis, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Wright, and poets such as T.S. Eliot, are among those considered, although the list of writers studied may vary from term to term. Pre-requisite(s): ENG 101 and ENG 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

How do writers transform their life experience into fiction, plays, poetry, memoir, and other works of literature – what is left out, what is added, how are elements altered, considering the special skills of a given writer? Students keep a journal and transform their own personal journal and transform their own personal. Students consider their own historical context and specific consider their own historical context and specific on American writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry, and others. Pre-requisite(s): ENG 101 and ENG 201 or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours