The Age of Irony: Twentieth Century America

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Essay Response
12-credit section
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Evening and Weekend Studies

Week 4

Tuesday, April 24 Lecture on Babbitt as social critique. Movie: American Beauty. Begin to read your WWII novel for novel workshop on May 1.

Thursday, April 26 Seminar on Babbitt.

Saturday, April 28 --Class meets from 10:00-4:00 Short introductory lecture and film: The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. Workshop using How to Read a Film. Assignment: read World War II novel and bring 2 copies of essay response for Saturday.

"The American Fear of Literature," Sinclair Lewis' 1930 Nobel Prize Lecture

Spring Quarter
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TESC Evening & Weekend Studies -- Fall/Winter/Spring 2006-2007