English 166

Special Topics: Readings for Fiction Writers

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
2	Fall 2009	Mukherjee, Bharati Mukherjee, Bharati (a.k.a. Blaise, Bharati)	TTh 3:30-5	210 Wheeler	Special Topics

Other Readings and Media

Flaubert, G.: Madame Bovary; Doctorow, E.L.: The March; Fitzgerald, F.S.: The Great Gatsby; Mukherjee, B.: Jasmine; Forster, E.M.: Howards End; Smith, Zadie: White Teeth; Achebe, C.: Things Fall Apart; Rushdie, S.: Midnight’s Children; Hosseini, K.: The Kite Runner

Description

This course will focus on each novelist’s invention of, or critique of, national identity myths in a time of national crisis. Students will explore the intimate connection between narrative strategy and construction of meaning.

Other Recent Sections of This Course

fall, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Form and Invention in Native American Literature	Piatote, Beth

spring, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Beckett	Danner, Mark
166/2	Special Topics	Naiman, Eric

summer, 2022
166/1	Special Topics: Epic Poetry	Delehanty, Patrick
166/2	Special Topics: The Rise of the Young Adult	Baker-Gibbs, Ariel
166/4	Special Topics: Introduction to Popular Fiction	Ghosh, Srijani

fall, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Writing Race: Faulkner and his Progeny	Danner, Mark
166/2	Special Topics: Burn it Down/Build it Up: Protest, Dissent, and the Politics of Resistance	Saha, Poulomi
166/3	Special Topics: "Race, Social Class, Creative Writing, and Difference"	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: The Literature of the Fin de Siècle	Viragh, Atti

spring, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: The Graphic Memoir	Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
166/3	Special Topics: Hemingway and Masculinity	Danner, Mark
166/4	Special Topics: The Social Media of Literature	Zeavin, Hannah
166/5	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

summer, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Broadway Musicals	Drawdy, Miles
166/2	Special Topics: Law and Literature in the United States	de Stefano, Jason
166/3	Special Topics: Queer Tourism	Eisenberg, Emma Charlotte
166/4	Special Topics: Four Nobelists: Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Seamus Heaney	Nathan, Jesse

fall, 2020
166/1	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/3	Special Topics: The Age of Crisis	Strub, Spencer

spring, 2020
166/2	Special Topics: The Literature & Art of Incarceration	Padilla, Genaro M.
166/3	Special Topics: Moby-Dick	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/4	Special Topics: Pomo: Exploring the Landscape of Postmodernism	Danner, Mark
166/5	Special Topics: American Humor: Books & Movies	Starr, George A.
166/6	Special Topics: Art of Writing: Grant Writing, Food Writing, Food Justice	Schweik, Susan
166/7	Special Topics: Arthurian Romance	Nolan, Maura

summer, 2020
166/1	Special Topics: Medieval Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones	Stevenson, Max
166/2	Special Topics: Global Catastrophe and Modern Literature	Nathan, Jesse
166/3	Special Topics: The Broadway Musical	Drawdy, Miles

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