Contemporary British Writing

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

Students examine a range of literary production (fiction, poetry, drama and film), and explore the political and aesthetic debates that shape twenty-first-century British literature and culture. Critical debates and issues investigated might include: transnational and cosmopolitan identities; national identities in the context of devolution and the European Union; realism and its aesthetic limits; technology, science and ecological futures; religious fundamentalism and terrorism; reinventions of historical, speculative and crime genres.