ENGL 693 (M1) - Contemporary Literature

Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2019 - UNHM Credit (15 weeks) (01/22/2019 - 05/13/2019)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 12
CRN: 54586

A) Old English Literature, B) Medieval Literature, C) 16th Century, D) 17th Century, E) 18th Century, F) English Romantic Period, G) Victorian Period, H) 20th Century, I) Drama, J) Novel, K) Poetry, L) Nonfiction, M) American Literature, N) A Literary Problem, O) Literature of the Renaissance, R) Race and Racial Theories. The precise topics and methods of each section vary. Barring duplication of subject, course may be repeated for credit. For details, see course descriptions available in the English department. (Not offered every year.) Special fee on some topics. Writing intensive.

Section Comments: Experimental Narrative

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to 2 times.

Only listed campus in section: Durham, Manchester

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: STAFF

Times & Locations

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/23/2019	5/8/2019	W	6:01pm - 9:00pm	PANDRA P501

Additional Course Details:

This course explores the theories, methods, and ambitions behind contemporary experimental narratives. While our general focus is innovative storytelling in the postwar period, we will pay special attention to how digital authorship has complicated our understanding of narrative. Across several media, we will study the many modes of narrative composition used by both domestic and international experimental writers: for instance, collaborative, multi-genre, interactive, immersive, transmedia, multimedia, cross-genre, appropriative, and metamodern. A partial list of the authors we may consider in print, at times in excerpt, includes: William Burroughs, Julio Cortázar, Thomas Pynchon, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Coover, Clarice Lispector, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgård, Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard McGuire, and Eimear McBride.