Yet with the beginning of the 20th century came an explosion of experimentation and energy infusing the novel, introducing new content and form. In this course, you explore eight of the most original and groundbreaking works of the 20th century, selected from among the wide variety of experimental forms that have been developed in the past hundred years. Readings include works by Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jeanette Winterson. These are great works of the imagination that challenge the reader's understanding of the very purpose of fiction, frequently with wild and unexpected humor. They are also works that reach ambitiously toward powerful insights into the human condition and into the nature of meaning and experience.
Enrollment is limited.
He is founder of the James Joyce Center at DU-MOO, a virtual university on the Internet.