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Instructor: Ann Warren Office: NEA 297 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-9:30 am, and by appointment Phone: 310-233-4250 E-Mail: annw708@gmail.com Welcome English 103 is a course designed to improve a student’s skill in reading carefully, writing effectively, and thinking clearly. This course will provide students with various thinking and reasoning strategies and help students develop stronger critical […]

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When writing about literature, you follow the same basic conventions required of any expository essay. That is, you –state a thesis in your introduction –develop that thesis by giving supporting reasons and evidence in the body of the essay –conclude with a summary of your main points and a restatement of the thesis –cite and […]

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Professions for Women excerpted from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, 1942 This was a paper read to The Women’s Service League. When your secretary invited me to come here, she told me that your Society is concerned with the employment of women and she suggested that I might tell you something about […]

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Early 20th Century Fiction: Fitzgerald and West F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West became friends in the late 1930s in Hollywood, where each of them labored in the studios for money to write the novels about which they really cared. West had been influenced deeply by Fitzgerald’s novels, especially The Great Gatsby, and in turn, […]

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Early 20th Century Fiction: Chandler Raymond Chandler was born July 23, 1888, in Chicago. His parents divorced when he was 7 and his mother took him to live in London. He was educated there at Dulwich College; then he spent time studying in France and Germany and working as a freelance journalist. He became a […]

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Early 20th Century Fiction: Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland on May 27, 1894. He left school at 13 and drifted from job to job until he found permanent work as a detective for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He worked there for several years, and the experiences he had affected him profoundly. […]

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Early 20th Century Poetry: Eliot and Others Modernism The realism and naturalism of Howells, Twain, James, Crane, and others set the stage for the period of literature known as “Modernism.” So did the writings of Darwin and Freud. And the carnage of World War I confirmed and strengthened the ideas that some artists, writers, and […]

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Late 19th Century Fiction: Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. His father was a Methodist preacher, and his mother was a social leader and temperance crusader. He was their 14th child. The family moved several times when Stephen was a child, following his father’s pastoral assignments. In […]

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Late 19th Century Fiction: Henry James Henry James was born April 15, 1843 in New York City,the second of 5 children born to Henry James, Sr., and Mary Walsh James. Henry, Sr., was a well-known writer and was friendly with many prominent figures, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Henry James, Sr., took advantage of his wealth […]

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Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction: Short Stories and Novels World War II ended with two nuclear explosions. In addition, there were revelations of the horrors of the concentration camps–coldly planned and methodically carried out atrocities on an unimaginable scale. The knowledge that human beings were capable of such evil, and that they now […]

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