The Mediated HeartIrvine Valley College

Online Literature Study of the School of Humanities and Languages

Literature 24 - Contemporary Literature

Summer 2010 - ticket # 62620

CLASS MEETS FROM 7/6/2010 to 8/15/2010

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, Instructor

Class Syllabus

 

Unit 1:  Introduction:  The Floating Contemporary - What is Contemporary Literature?

Week beginning July 6, 2010.

Reading:  Joseph Heller, Catch 22.

 

Unit 2:  The Illusion of the Receding Past

Week beginning July 12, 2010.

Reading:  William Gibson, Neuromancer.

 

Unit 3:  The Future In and Out of Time

Week beginning July 19, 2010.

Reading:  Gabriel Garcia-Marquez:  Chronicle of a Death Foretold

 

Unit 4:  Echoes from the Margins

Week beginning July 26, 2010.

Reading:  Toni Morrison, Sula  

 

Unit 5: The Game of War and Control

Week beginning August 2, 2010.

Reading:  Joan Didion,  Democracy  

 

Unit 6: Enduring Consciousness and Culture

Weeks beginning on August 9, 2010.

Reading:  Richard Ford,  Rock Springs

 

Unit 7:  The Digital Now

Extra Lesson for those who are interested:

Reading:  The Electronic Literature Collection // Readings from the WWW

Review and Sharing of Research Projects:

Weeks beginning August 9, 2010.   

Research Papers and Take-Home Final Due August 13, 2010.

 

 

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, your Instructor, is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Languages, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, California.

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