ENGL 2310 - Fiction Now

Arts & Sciences Department
This course covers a selection of notable fiction of the past twenty-five years, with a focus on texts by U.S. writers. We will read short stories and novels representing recent styles and concerns and learn to recognize the formal features of contemporary fiction-a category often suspicious of interpretation- and consider their procedures and effects. Reading is supplemented by critical commentaries, contextual essays, and discussion of contemporary topics like climate change, crises of Western democracy, war and terror, and the role of faith and magical thinking in a modern worldview.
credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1100