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Academic Year 2000/2001

Ultimate Narrative
ENGL 228 FA

This introduction to fiction will consider shaped narrative and its effects on everyday life. Students will read novels and memoirs offering different narrative templates. We will examine moments of narrative failure, panic, and outrage in contemporary life, including the Challenger explosion, the O.J. Simpson trial, Princess Diana's death. We will attend to the media to see what plots are currently being flogged, examining, for example, the idea of "closure."

MAJOR READINGS

Major readings may include ANNA KARENINA, DAVID COPPERFIELD, MRS. DALLOWAY, ULYSSES, Gosse's FATHER AND SON, Vivian Gornick's FIERCE ATTACHMENTS.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Reading journal, frequent tests, and final paper or exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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