Ford, Michael
TR 12:45 PM
Park Hall 0250
This class will provide a broad overview of American literature since 1914. We will read several short stories, novels, and poems written in the past 111 years; discuss some of the literary movements, genres, and styles that have captured the attention of writers and readers in that period; and practice a variety of critical and creative methods of analyzing literature. These methods will include hands-on ways of analyzing literature’s relationship to visual art and to print and electronic media. We will spend time at UGA’s Main Library and Special Collections Libraries, examining the magazines and first-edition volumes in which the works we read first appeared. We will also visit the Georgia Museum of Art, where we will consider the relationship between literary and visual arts in the GMOA’s new Study Gallery. As one of the first classes created in conjunction with the GMOA’s Study Gallery, the course will include at least three visits to the GMOA, during which we will view works I have chosen from the museum’s collection as complements to our course readings.