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, 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

fall, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Getting Global: Literature & Film of an Expanding & Unequal World	Saha, Poulomi
166/2	Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film	Goble, Mark
166/3	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America	Lee, Steven S.
166/7	Special Topics: Charles Dickens	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/8	Special Topics: Green Thought in a Green Shade	Turner, James Grantham
166/9	Special Topics: New Orleans	Wagner, Bryan
166/11	Special Topics: The Works of Vladimir Nabokov	Naiman, Eric

spring, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Gothic	Duncan, Ian
166/2	Special Topics: Marxism and Literature	Gonzalez, Marcial
166/4	Special Topics: Poetry and Prose of Race and Social Class	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/5	Special Topics: Asian American Literature - World, Nation, Locality	Leong, Andrew Way
166/6	Special Topics: Realism, Then and Now	Cordes Selbin, Jesse
166/7	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

fall, 2018
166/2	Special Topics: Alfred Hitchcock	Bader, Julia
166/3	Special Topics: Journeys: British World-Building, c. 700-1700	Miller, Jasmin
166/4	Special Topics: "this morning's minion": Sonic Mysticism in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson	Stancek, Claire Marie
166/5	Special Topics	Le, Serena

spring, 2018
166/1	Special Topics: Comedy & Violence	Flynn, Catherine
166/2	Special Topics: Romantic Science	Goldstein, Amanda Jo
166/3	Special Topics: Classical & Renaissance Drama	Knapp, Jeffrey
166/4	Special Topics: Marxism & Literature	Lye, Colleen
166/5	Special Topics: Emily Dickinson	Shoptaw, John
166/6	Special Topics: Speculative Fiction	Jones, Donna V.

summer, 2018
166/1	Special Topics: Speculative Fictions, Possible Futures	O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
166/2	Special Topics: Games of Thrones, Medieval to Modern	Strub, Spencer

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