ENG 2360 American Literature and the Arts (Second Summer 2026, Section 101) / IMPERILED RHYTHMS / Dr. Ryan James McGuckin Online/Asynchronous
How is music valuable to fictional worlds?
This course focuses on fictional representations of music and musicality and its importance to language, identity, authenticity, history, and subjectivity.
• Can music capture the present and recover the past?
• Does music confer a shared sense of closure?
Readings in:
Willa Cather on memory and longing through Schubert’s Lied
Michael Ondaatje on the dramatic origins of New Orleans jazz
James Weldon Johnson on ragtime and the Harlem Renaissance
F. Scott Fitzgerald on the aesthetic worlds of artifice and excess
*This course fulfills the General Education requirement
ENG 2360 American Literature and the Arts (Second Summer 2026, Section 101)
ENG 2360 American Literature and the Arts (Second Summer 2026, Section 101)