Jazz Age Literature Culture ((4 Credits))

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This course is an exploration of the literature and culture of America in the 1920s, and its relation to other manifestations of the material culture of the time, such as music, film, affluence and celebrity. By the end of the course, students should be more astute as a readers, viewers and listeners, more proficient as writers and should have enhanced their insight into the ways in which the literature of the ‘20s was a product of the cultural, social and political context.