ENG 3111 NOBEL LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
In the middle decades of the 20th century, the Swedish Academy awarded Nobel Prizes to a score of authors whose works "paved the way for developments that provided world literature with new possibilities in outlook and language" (Kjell Espmart). This seminar will consider the works of these "pioneers." Among them are Gabriela Mistral, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Fran231ois Mauriac, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, George Sefaris, and Samuel Beckett. Even a brief list of the titles articulating the contribution of this international literary avant-garde conveys its richness: "A Farewell to Arms", "The Wasteland", "Waiting for Godot", "Doctor Zhivago", "Intruder in the Dust", "The Plague", and "The Flies".