ENGL 543

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Seminar Mod British Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of modern British studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 543 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43359	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	125 English Building	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Title: A Commonweath of Violence Section Info: Topic Section R: A Commonweath of Violence: Humanism and Fiction at the End of Modernity With the close of the cold war and the emergence of a new kind of liberalism, contemporary British Fiction has begun to rethink the dialectic of humanism and violence that the previous generation of so-called ?postmodern? writers had taken for granted during the rise of the welfare state. As the Soviet experiment with communism died and the United States achieved global military and economic supremacy, a new generation of experimental writers sought to redefine Britain?s role in the world by observing how hegemony is produced, challenged, and, ultimately, sustained. By studying the contemporary novelists David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), Arhundati Roy (The God of Small Things), J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians) , Hari Kunzru (My Revolutions), and Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance) in tandem with the theoretical writings of Carl Schmit, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Giorgo Agamben, Corey Robin, Robert Esposito, Thomas Hobbes, and GWF Hegel the course will explore how often contemporary discussions of humanist values, global politics, and neo-liberal reform work to conceal while relying upon the threat of violence. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.