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2021-2022 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Westminster College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 443 - World Fiction

Semester Hours: 4

This advanced course allows students to engage with significant, groundbreaking masterworks of world fiction that they would not otherwise encounter in major courses confined to national literatures in English. The focus of ENG 443 is the nature of inventive narrative play operating in representative 20th/21st-century prose fiction from Europe, Latin America, the Mideast, and Asia. The class will read (in English translations) short works (and two full-length novels) originally written in French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, and Korean. Students will demonstrate their ability to discuss issues of literary analysis, much as they do in their courses in British and American Literature. Authors include Chekhov, Colette, Unamuno, Kafka, Bulgakov, Mann, Bombal, Allende, Valenzuela, Kim, Pamuk, Murakami, Daoud, Ferrante, and Antoon.