Spend part of this summer with Frank and Ava at Central Connecticut State University!
ENG
214:
Studies in World Literature – Frank and Ava
Course
Description
By
focusing on one of the 20th Century's most high-profile and explosive couples
and by using international and American works, this course examines the ways
writers the world over have created and employed their own Frank Sinatras and
Ava Gardners, as individuals and as a couple, in poetry, fiction,
non-fiction, drama. The course focuses on the techniques, expectations, and
possibilities that each genre offers and some of the cultural attitudes that
shape the literature. (Fulfills Study Area I literature Requirement and bears
International designation.)
Course
Objectives
By the end of
the course, students should be able to:
Discuss
effectively the literary
principles and practices of a variety of contemporary authors from around the
world;
Write coherent
and cogent analyses, using
textual support and appropriate academic conventions and language, of
20th and 21st- century literature in its many genres
(poetry, nonfiction, drama, fiction, film etc.);
Know
the outline and
significant milestones and achievements in the lives and careers of Ava Gardner
and Frank Sinatra; and
Recognize
the
international significance of American popular culture.
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