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EN 113 Popular Literary Classics

This course analyzes modern literary works that were both popular and critical successes, exploring the thematic and rhetorical features that led to their wide appeal. Texts include American and British works of fiction, autobiography, poetry and drama as well as pertinent critical essays and book reviews offering insight into the nature of commercial and critical reception of literature. Classes involve discussion of themes, styles, milieu and place in literary history.