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Narrative Investigations II: Realism to Postmodernism
| Semester and Year | SP 2013 |
| Course Number | IDSEM-UG1289 |
| Section | 001 |
| Instructor | Stacy Pies |
| Days | Tue,Thu |
| Time | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM |
| Units | 4.0 |
| Level | U |
| Foundation Requirement | HUM |
Description
In this class we continue to explore the concept of narrative and the way writers interrogate literary and social conventions. As we consider how stories shape our notions of history, gender, class, and sexual identity, we examine how the thinking of readers, and stories, changed from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Tracing the evolution of literary narrative from realism, to modernism and postmodernism, we see a new form of narration emerge, where protagonists include not only characters, but also time, place, the city, the reader, and language itself. Our readings include Stendhal’s The Red and the Black , Joyce’s Ulysses , and Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body , as well as writing on film by Seymour Chatman and films such as Memento .
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Course Type
Interdisciplinary Seminars (IDSEM-UG)
