ENGLISH 46N: American Moderns: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, & Fitzgerald
Please note, effective Feb. 18, the units for this seminar are changing from variable to 4 units.
Course Description
While Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were flirting with the expatriate avant-garde in Europe, Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner were performing anthropological field-work in the local cultures of the American South. We will read four short novels - Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - to address the tremendous diversity of concerns and styles of four writers who marked America's coming-of-age as a literary nation with their multifarious experiments in the regional and the global, the racial and the cosmopolitan, the macho and the feminist, the decadent and the impoverished.
Meet the Instructor: Gavin Jones
"I am a professor in the English Department, and I have taught at Stanford since 1999. I specialize in American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My most recent book is about the American writer John Steinbeck, and I am beginning a new project about Zora Neale Hurston. I enjoy co-teaching with instructors in the Creative Writing Program, and I will also be teaching a course on contemporary American short stories this year."
