HENK00050U English, 2013 curriculum - Free topic 20: Fiction Now: Narrative, Media, and Theory in the 21st Century
As a form — material and generic -- the novel seems to have survived the digital turn better than expected. But what is it like to read books alongside connected devices, films, and updates? What do novelists themselves make of this juxtaposition? And perhaps most provocatively: if we were once hardwired to think of our selves and our existence through books, how do books work now that we are mediated by other devices?
In this course we'll read a very recent selection of US and UK fictions alongside films and theorists of media and (post)modernity. Texts will Include: Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Ali Smith, The Accidental, Ben Lerner, 10.04, and Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Jennifer Egan, Visit from the Good Squad.
This course only leads to exams Free Topic 4B with Oral Proficiency in English or Free Topic B with Oral Proficiency in English.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
- Exam registration requirements
This course only leads to exams Free Topic 4B with Oral Proficiency in English.
Criteria for exam assesment
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other under invigilation
- Exam registration requirements
This course only leads to exams Free Topic B with Oral Proficiency in English.
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK00050U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course Coordinators
- Tina Jane Lupton (7-796e7366717a75456d7a7233707a336970)