The Dramatic Imagination in America Eng. The Postmodern Novel Eng. 382-1 Designed for graduate students and advanced English majors, this course explores an array of postmodern fiction, primarily from England and the Continent. Films are also included. Authors include Barnes, Kundera, Fowles, Calvino, Byatt, Atwood, and Swift.
American literature is full of phantoms.
The ghosts that haunt American writing are most often ghosts of people of color, women, homosexuals, illegal aliens, and poor people. Perhaps this is evidence of some kind of collective national guilt. Perhaps it means something much scarier than that. This seminar focuses on the literary and political contexts, causes, and effects of representing disempowered people as ghosts. Bergland 4 semester hours James Joyce Eng.