EN-UY 2334W Literary Inventiveness

4 Credits

This course explores not the subject of “innovation” in literature, but the fact of it. Students read a range of literary texts that invented utterly new ways of writing: new forms and new approaches to consciousness and language itself. The course focuses on two clusters of literary and linguistic innovation: (1) writing in the ancient world, where narrative, drama and lyric-and indeed, the technology of writing itself-were first invented, and (2) works by pioneering literary modernists who radically reinvented the forms forged by their earliest predecessors.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1 or EXPOS-UA 4
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

Weekly Lecture Hours: 4