This unit engages students with significant American texts from key historical periods. The texts include a variety of genres—novels, poetry, film and theatre. The unit proposes that America is a society of transformation in terms of literary form, cultural mythology and historical events. The literary texts that are studied in the unit both document and stimulate the cultural transformations of their historical contexts, and of later times. They also extend the possibilities of literary expression in a way that had not been anticipated prior to their publication. The texts on the unit are thus politically active and also vital in a literary sense. Through the study of these texts,... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: any Level 1 English unit
