The Third Person: Narrating the Subject of Modern Literature

ENGL 2561E S01 [CRN: 24794]

The modern subject is typically viewed as self-reflexive, the product of the mass media, advertising, and corporations. What such accounts overlook is that self-reflexivity is primarily a way of seeing the self in narrative terms. This class examines the centrality of narrative to modern conceptions of the self. Writers to include Whitman, Dickens, James, Cather, Beckett, Coetzee, Blanchot, Sartre, Ricoeur. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students.
Term
Spring 2013
Credit Hours
1.0
Maximum Enrollment
15
Primary Instructor
Meetings
3:00 pm - 5:20 pm Fri - from Jan 23, 2013 to May 17, 2013
Exam Group Code
15 (May 15, 2013 9:00am)