Special Topic: Difficult Novels, Uneasy Narratives
ENGL 393
Spring 2024
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How have writers learned to accommodate histories and experiences that feel too overwhelming to describe? How have the techniques of fiction and nonfiction helped to construct narratives that take into account the incoherence and confusion of political and personal events? In this class, we will be reading challenging works that seek to embrace complexity. We will be asking ourselves how novels, plays, and nonfiction can both verbalize and quiet some of the questions we have all been asking as one inevitable occurrence seems to lead to the next. In this class, you will be thoroughly immersed in literary exchanges. You will be asked to reckon with the questions that spring from each literary work, and to set several books in conversation with each other to see what surprising, new dialogue emerges. This is a class deeply engaged in the ideas that spring from your own interpretations and considerations of what you read. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL292 OR ENGL296 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Miriam Toews, WOMEN TALKING, Han Kang, HUMAN ACTS, Toni Morrison, SULA
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Examinations and Assignments:
2 writing submissions
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to the fulfillment of the following ENGL major requirements:
CW path, CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW elective. |
| Instructor(s): Mengiste,Maaza Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: CRT285; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 7 | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: X | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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