Place in Contemporary Fiction: The Settings and Spaces of Narrative

3 credits

This course considers the role of place in contemporary fiction, from real-world locations to strange, impossible imaginary geographies. Thinking of place as more than just setting, as merely the zone in which plot unfolds, what else can we learn about narrative from the study of its representations of environmental spaces? ***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***