ENG395U
Postmodern Novel
English
BC
Subject code
ENG
Course Number
395U
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
S. Freedman
Course Long Title
Postmodern Novel
Description
The seminar examines diverse efforts to define "postmodernism." Students read novels by Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace, Eco, and Rushdie. Contemporary reviews, secondary criticism, narrative theory, issues of socially constructed reality, and some problems in the philosophy of language mark out its concerns. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level English course.
Writing Credit
W2
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(English: Post-1800)
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years