Summer 2022  |  ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (81848)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
06/06/2022 - 07/29/2022
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:
What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. In this course, we will read a wide range of fiction - both novels and short stories - from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Throughout, we will interrogate what the words "modern" and "fiction" mean in relation to the text at hand.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/81848/1225
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 March 2017

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