LIT2000.0001 - Spring 2025 - Rafferty

This introductory course focuses on the fundamentals of Western literature. We will study multiple genres, including novels, short stories, and poetry. The course will examine a range of authors including those writing during the drastic political, and socio-cultural shifts that occurred from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century.

This course examines authors that reflect these contexts: Joseph Conrad, WH Auden, Samuel Beckett, Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Burgess, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jean Rhys, Bret Easton Ellis, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Anzaldua, Chuck Palahniuk, and more.