ENGL 3088: Major Authors of Post-1900 Literature in English - T.S. Eliot and Company (Spring 2020)

T.S. Eliot wrote several of the most important poems of the twentieth century. He was also a major critic, a playwright, and a publisher. His work remains a troubling mix of brilliantly subversive ���raids on the unconscious��� and deeply conservative reactions against modernity. To read Eliot is to encounter other writers���major modernists whom he influenced and published (among them Ezra Pound, H.D., James Joyce, and Djuna Barnes), writers he venerated and ransacked (���mature poets steal,��� Eliot wrote), and other artists who informed his sensibility. It is also to encounter the modern world: the city, two world wars, mass culture, and the search for meaning.
In this class we will study Eliot���s major works and read those in his immediate circle and in his field of reference: our reading will open up Eliot���s imagination, and Eliot in turn will open up the culture of modernity.
Taught by Dr. Jeremy Green.
賊梗梯梗硃喧硃莉梭梗:泭Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.泭
賊梗梁喝勳莽勳喧梗莽:泭Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).
Additional Information:泭Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Critical Studies in English