ENGC 3072 - Modernism and Postmodernism in World Fiction

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University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

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Description:

This course examines works of world fiction associated with the literary critical terms of modernism and postmodernism. The first part of the course focuses on texts written or published from the very beginning of the twentieth century to the years preceding WWII, focusing on texts that clearly depart from the conventions of mimetic fiction that had dominated in the 19th century and revealing the emergence of new cultural and ideological perspectives. Students read from writers such as Knut Hamsun, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, and Virginia Woolf. The second part of this course examines how the trends that had characterized the modernist period are transformed by new epistemological and ontological questions and concerns. The course will cover some novels as well as other works that are harder to identify with a particular genre, as well as some theoretical works on postmodernism. Typical authors who may be included: A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Patrick Chamoiseau, Roddy Doyle, Gunter Grass, Julio Cortazar, and Salman Rushdie.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uc.edu

Phone Number:

(513) 556-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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