EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination

Course Units: 1.0

This course will examine contemporary British literary works. We will be reading closely, carefully, and critically about gender, sexuality, class, race, love, trauma, narrative, style, history, and more. This course will familiarize students with a sampling of the (often experimental) literature that the global Anglophone world has produced fairly recently; our selections will range from experimental short stories to books-turned-films to so-called “weird fiction,” in order to address the following major questions: how does the contemporary British literary imagination develop? And, what, exactly, does it develop into? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSWS