English 373 - Experimental 20th-century Narratives

Institution:

Haverford College

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Description:

HU Staff In this course we will study, under the rubric experimental, a set of narrative texts (mostly literary, but some cinematic) produced in Britain in the twentieth century. The strangest textual effects, the riskiest narrative strategies, the most disquieting subject matter these indicators of the experimental are the more pronounced when they first appear in ostensibly comprehensible form, in relation to the conventional. The experimental proves to be a species of the uncanny as Freud defines it

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.haverford.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 896-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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