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Contemporary Fiction
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Program
London, England
Dates: 8/30/17 - 12/16/17
Contemporary Fiction
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: London South Bank University
Location: London, England
Primary Subject Area: English Language & Literature
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 4
Prerequisites: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent.
DESCRIPTION
This module offers students the opportunity to examine in detail a selection of late twentieth-century and twenty-first century fiction. The texts selected reflect different cultural contexts and represent a range of stylistic, structural and linguistic responses to popular, theoretical and cultural issues. All the texts studied are, in different ways, ground breaking and innovative. An important focus of the module is the study of critical and cultural theory that includes or reflects contemporary responses to the postmodern, a preoccupation with globalization, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, trauma and contemporary theories of affect. Students will be asked to appraise texts which engage with these theoretical approaches and concerns.