Dangerous Realisms
CHUM 372
Spring 2025 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
ENGL 366 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: African Studies, African Studies Minor |
The aim of this course is to explore realism's ideological possibilities, past and present. We will begin with an introduction to realism as the preeminent formal technique for narrating novels and proceed by looking at other genres that either adapt, or respond to, realist writing. Readings will be drawn from 19th-century Europe and 20th-century Africa and will include works of realism, naturalism, and modernism. These will be considered alongside theories of realism and the novel. Theorists may include Aristotle, Armstrong, Barthes, Hartman, Jameson, Lukács, and Watt. We will read novels by Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Miguel de Cervantes, J.M. Coetzee, Daniel Defoe, and Gustave Flaubert. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
TBD, BUT INCLUDES: IAN WATT, THE RISE OF THE NOVEL; BARTHES, RUSTLE OF LANGUAGE; ELIZABETH DEEDS ERMARTH, REALISM AND CONSENSUS IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL: TIME, SPACE AND NARRATIVE; ELAINE AUYOUNG, WHEN FICTION FEELS REAL: REPRESENTATION AND THE READING MIND
D.A. MILLER, THE NOVEL AND THE POLICE; IAN DUNCAN, MODERN ROMANCE, 1992
KATIE TRUMPENER, BARDIC NATIONALISM, 1997, HENRY JAMES THE ART OF FICTION; BHAKTIN ON RABELAIS; PERIPHERAL REALISMS, JED ESTY, COLLEEN LYE, JOE CLEARY AND NOVELS BY THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS: CHINUA ACHEBE, AYI KWEI ARMAH, SAMUEL BECKETT, WILLA CATHER, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, AIMÉ CÉSAIRE, ANTON CHEKOV, CHARLES CHESNUTT, J.M. COETZEE, STEPHEN CRANE, DANIEL DEFOE, GEORGE ELIOT, WILSON HARRIS, SAIDIYA HARTMAN, HENRY JAMES, JENNIFER MAKUMBI, GABRIEL GARCIA MÁRQUEZ, NG G WA THIONG O, NAMWALI SERPELL, AND ÉMILE ZOLA
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Examinations and Assignments:
2x 6-8pp papers, 1 longer research paper; class presentations |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: LH3, WL, TH, elective |
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