ENGL 3350 - Regional Literature

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
A study of literature using region as the primary category of analysis. Texts might include fiction and nonfiction, performance texts (such as drama and folktales from the oral tradition), and examples of material culture (e.g., architecture, home furnishings, and clothing). The class might focus on a specific geographic region (e.g., the American South, the Caribbean); a comparative study of regional culture (Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpa vs. Hardy’s Wessex, Hawthorne’s and Melville’s New England vs. Sedgwick’s and Jewett’s New England); or authors or themes closely associated with a region (e.g., Cather’s West, Race and Religion in the South).

Notes: This course can be taken more than once provided the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.