Single Author Study: Contemporary Fiction Study + Internship in London: CEA London Center - OLD Program Spring 2017 Semester

This unit examines in detail a selection of novels by novelists writing in the latter half of the twentieth century. The novels selected reflect different cultural context and represent a range of stylistic, structural and linguistic responses to popular and theoretical cultural issues, but all the texts studied are, in different ways, ground breaking and innovative. An important focus of the unit is the study of critical and cultural theory that includes or reflects the influence of poststructuralism and postmodernism. Students will be asked to appraise texts which engage with these theoretical approaches and concerns, at times resisting and at other times incorporating them. Students are also required to study an individual author in depth, focusing on the characteristic literary style and preoccupations of and individual author