ENGL 378 - Literary Self-Reference

Institution:

Westminster College (Salt Lake City)

Subject:

English

Description:

We will study art about art: literature that thematizes the creation and reception of literature (or art), highlighting its own fictional status, and paradoxically questioning its own status as art. Literary self-reference characterizes many paradigmatic modern and postmodern works such as Cervantes's Don Quixote, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Jorge Luis Borges' short stories, and Samuel Beckett's plays. We will grapple with the theoretical and cultural- historical issues involved in literary self reference. This course fulfills the Theory or Language and Media requirement for English majors.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.westminstercollege.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 484-7651

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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