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English 207 Survey of American Literature Dr. Julia Eichelberger Fall 2015, 10:50 TTh
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The United States are themselves the greatest poem.
–Walt Whitman
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Survey of American Literature This course is a survey, which means we look at a large number of writers and texts over a long span of time (1500s to the present). The course gives students a broader context for American writers that they may have studied before or will study in other classes.
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! For example, you may have already read some works by Edgar Allan Poe. In English 207, we’ll study him as part of a group of writers from the early 1900s.
! Poe is considered a Romantic writer, similar in some ways to Nathaniel Hawthorne; his dark view of human nature and his approach to literature were quite different from earlier writers such as Benjamin Franklin or Phyllis Wheatley.
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So we’ll study authors for their own sake and also as examples of “isms” and other historical trends or (for example, the Harlem Renaissance, the Vietnam war).
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Who’s the course for?
! This survey course is required for English majors, and it’s also open to non-majors.
! It’s not as intense as a 300-level course, but we do cover a lot of ground. I focus on tests more than papers in this class, but tests include some short take-home essays as well as in-class essay questions.
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What are the requirements?
! 3 tests
! 4 short exercises
! 1 critical analysis
! Quizzes, homework, and attendance
! Final exam
! I use a combination of lecture and discussion to guide you through these writers and literary periods.
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I love teaching this course because I enjoy introducing students to such a wide variety of writers, and I love talking about the recurring questions that they raise.
Big questions, like . . . .
What do we believe about God, Nature, and human nature?
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! How much freedom do individuals have, and how can we participate in American society?
! What does it even mean to be an American?
! What should a work of literature do to be successful, to be beautiful, to be true to human experience?