Course Description

EN299 Early 20th-Century Literature: Re-writing Society 0.5

This course involves the study of early 20th-century poetry, fiction and drama during 1900-1939. The course will focus on the relationship between literature and major social/political movements, and historical events of the period, such as Irish nationalism, the women's movement, the labour movement and World War I. Authors may include W.B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey, G.B. Shaw, Elizabeth Robins, Alice Meynell, Wilfred Owen, George Orwell and W.H. Auden.

Exclusion: EN258*.

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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