Discussions on preparing a book for press will be supplemented by One Book Five Ways . Writing and Editing Internship. Studies in 20 th Century American Literature. Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, Lost Generation, Roaring Twenties. The Sun Also Rises , The Professor's House , Passing , and The Sound and the Fury .
Seminar reports as assigned.
Final essay of 15-20 pages. Studies in African American Literature. A seminar on the writings of Fayetteville, NC's Charles W. Chesnutt, whose unique artistic focus on the American color line greatly exemplifies the classic qualities of African American double consciousness and signifying-a necessity for interpreting the bulk of African American literature. Chesnutt's writings will enable students to comprehend how an African American physical, mental, and intellectual strategy for survival in a predatory American environment also translates into literary theory and method. Chesnutt's two short story collections, his published novels, essays, and letters.