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Sep 07, 2024
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ENGL 257 - The Novel in English after 1945 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) The novel in English as it has developed in Africa, America, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, India, Ireland, and elsewhere.
Topic for 2024/25b: Special Topic: Dystopian Fiction: This semester we read novels that re-envision their respective Nows as imminent dystopias, beginning with Yevgeny Zamyatin’s Z, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Other novels might include: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor, J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Heesok Chang.
Two 75-minute periods.
Course Format: CLS
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