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Academic Year 2001/2002
Technical Fictions: Machines and the 20th-Century American Novel
ENGL 244 SP
This course examines twentieth-century American fiction and the special status it accords new technologies and novel machines. How do burgeoning technologies - from assembly lines to cinema to computers - reshape
narrative form and the expectations of
readers? We will discuss the historical and economic conditions to which new technologies give rise, as well as the desires and fears they come to bear. We will pay particular attention to how machines mediate changing
relations of class, race and
gender.
MAJOR READINGS
Texts may include DAY OF THE LOCUST, Nathaniel West; INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison; WHITE NOISE, Don DeLillo
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Mid-term and final exam, one long essay
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course is open to majors and non-majors. Many of these novels are long and challenging. Students should be prepared to do extensive reading each week.
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/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Bachner,Sally
- Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK116
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 26)
- SR. major: 4 Jr. major: 5
- SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 4 SO: 7 FR: X
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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