Contemporary American Fiction (P00446)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00446

Contemporary American Fiction is an introduction to the American novel of the last twenty years; the course emphasises the unique cultural diversity of recent American writing, and seeks to promote its aesthetic value while understanding that value within debates about cultural politics: how does one assess the artistic merit of individual texts within a 'multicultural' context where the idea of 'American' national identity is profoundly contested?

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Purchase of essential texts as required.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 2 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	11:10	13:00	Central
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

? Additional Class Information : Tu 1110 or 1400

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the successful student will have acquired a good close textual knowledge of nine radically different recent American novels; the student will also have a knowledge of how these novels are situated in terms of arguments about American cultural politics (especially the heterogeneity of American society) and will have some understanding of contemporary debates and politics and aesthetics as those debates are given a focus by recent American fiction. The successful student will also have acquired transferable skills that are integral to this course.