ENG-230 Literature of the American West
This course examines the American West as
imagined and depicted by twentieth-century
writers. How do individualism, racial difference,
aridity, competition over natural resources, and
environmentalism shape the way Americans imagine
the West? How does the West in its conflicts,
diversity, and complexity epitomize in a dramatic
way what we imagine as deeply American? These are
just some of the questions that we will attempt
to answer through our reading of novels, short
stories, poems and essays by American
westerners.(Introduction to Literary Studies)
Prerequisites: FYS-101 or FYS-110