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SUMMARY:Novels of the Southern US
LOCATION:Baker Downtown Center\, 975 High Street\, Eugene\, OR 97401
DESCRIPTION:In this course we will examine novels by Southern writers from
  1942 to 2011\, exploring how each novel represents evolving understandin
 gs of identity\, culture\, race\, and gender at crucial times in American
  history and letters.\n\nEach class will begin with a bit of lecture offe
 ring historical context and scholarly reception for each work but the mai
 n part of class will be discussion as we consider passages from each nove
 l as well as the larger themes each author is addressing. We’ll look at l
 iterary techniques as well as thematics\, thinking about point of view\, 
 character development\, representations of time and memory\, use of place
  and landscape\, just to name a few.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\nWeek One: The Bear (1
 942) by William Faulkner\nWeek Two: The Member of the Wedding (1946) by C
 arson McCullers\nWeek Three: The Violent Bear It Away (1960) by Flannery 
 O’Connor\nWeek Four: Salvage the Bones (2011) by Jesmyn Ward\n\nABOUT THE
  INSTRUCTOR\n\nMary Wood is a semi-retired professor of English at the UO
 \, where she has taught American Literature for over thirty years. She re
 gularly teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature\, A
 merican modernism\, and memoir and autobiography and always makes sure to
  include Southern writers.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/93d6a924-f1d7-4
 328-8e0a-4dd988bb0895
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/93d6a924-f1d7-4328-8e0a-4dd988bb0895
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