ENGL 382 - “Post-Everything”: Fiction and Theory

4 HU, CD, WR
Second Semester. It’s been several decades since Barthes proclaimed the “death of the author,” yet authors persist. This course will focus on (relatively) recently published American novels, paying special attention to the relationship between fiction and literary theory. We’ll examine American fiction’s relationship to a variety of “post-isms,” including post-structuralism, -modernism, and -colonialism. We’ll also pay special attention to the question of representation, be it in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or sexuality. American, Diversity, Post-1900.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Liu

Credits: 4 hours