Lectures on and discussion of selected works written since the Second World War.

Sally Rooney has come to prominence in recent years as a bestselling novelist with serious intentions. This course situates her writing in fiction by Irish women from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Examining how these novels rework common novelistic structures such as the romantic plot, the coming-of-age plot, and the friendship plot, we will reflect on the formal features of the page-turner and the modernist work and consider the relationship between social critique and popular appeal. This class satisfies the Literatures in English requirement for the English major.

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