ENGL 252 Thematic Studies: The Modern Wasteland: Death & Rebirth in 20th Century English Literature

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition area of the core with a grade of C- or above. A study of major works of modern English literature with an emphasis on the social, psychological, and religious implications of the notion that modern life is a spiritual wasteland, a dead land calling out for rebirth. Texts may include works by Conrad, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, and Auden. (H2)