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Can we discern a particular 鈥榮tructure of feeling鈥� to contemporary fiction? Starting from discussions on fiction beyond postmodernism, this module will examine literary developments in 21st century literature from European, Latin- and North American authors, and situate them within a broader context that is characterized by social and ecological precarity and a lack of future. The module will develop an understanding of contemporary fiction as being preoccupied with questions of feeling and bodily experience in order to make sense of the world, and will look within this larger ideological frame at specific preoccupations in contemporary fiction: a desire for the real, feelings of depression and detachment, a disturbed sense of time and historicity, and movements between narcissism and community and between a home (intimacy) and the world (political commitment).听
听 听 听 听Primary reading may include novels by Catherine Lacey, Ben Lerner, 脡douard Louis, Ling Ma, Samanta Schweblin, Zadie Smith, Ni帽a Weijers and Alejandro Zambra.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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