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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."
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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