An introduction to major postcolonial writers, primarily from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Aime Cesaire, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jean Rhys.
Exploration of the "sense of place" in literary traditions emerging from American cultural regions (the South, the West, the Northeast) and applying those principles through service-learning. Reflective writing and service at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve.
Major American poets from 1900, concentrating on the image of American and the development of modernism. Poets may include Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov.
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Courses of selected topics will be offered periodically as determined by the needs of the curriculum. Prerequisites can vary based on the topic selected. See individual course listings for each semester for the specific topic and any prerequisites. You can view special topics course descriptions by copying this URL into your internet browser - https://sites.google.com/a/eckerd.edu/registrar/course-descriptions
Readings in literary criticism from classical, Renaissance, neo-Classical, and modern writers. Representative figures include Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, and selected modern thinkers. Prerequisite: Upperclass standing recommended, first-year students by instructor's permission only.