2021-2022 Catalog

EWL 380 International Postmodernist Fiction

In this course, we will read innovative  literary fiction written in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in a number of cultural contexts and languages (in English translation). We will explore the multiple meanings of the term “postmodern” and look at contemporary narrative experiments through the lens of postmodernist theory, focusing on questions of language, representation, and meaning. While the course focuses primarily on experimental novels, we will also explore other forms of postmodernist art, including film and architecture. We may also attend literary readings by selected contemporary authors. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

WRIT 102 or WRIT 201 and one previous EWL course