Among the authors studied are Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, and James Baldwin. Major authors to be studied include the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Emphasis is upon the major literary movements of Realism and Romanticism. Focus on reading classical works such as Arguedas, Asturias, Castellanos, Fuentes, Roa Bastos, Rulfo. The study of a particular type of literature, its origins, characteristics, subtypes, and some of its major writers and works.
Possible genres are poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and nonfiction writing.
May be repeated for credit with different genres. May be repeated for credit with different writers. Possible topics include, among others, Literature of the Southwest, Women Writers, Native American Writers, Literature and Gender, Ethnicity, Literature and Environment, Travel Literature, Sports Literature, and Science Fiction. May be repeated for credit with different issues. Instruction in all genres.