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ENG 643 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner

Catalog Year: 2019-2020

This course examines issues surrounding the formation of the canon of American literature, using as a primary example the status of William Faulkner in that canon. Students read a selection of Faulkner’s work, the evolving critical responses to that work which ultimately created the Faulkner’s reputation as America’s preeminent twentieth-century fiction writer, and the recent variety of critical response to Faulkner, reflecting varied critical stances.

Prerequisite: graduate status. It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have taken Eng 566
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3