ENGLIT 1577 - MODERN FANTASY WRITERS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Addresses twentieth- and twenty-first-century fantasy literature as a developing genre. Explores how modern and contemporary fantasy literature constructs coherent imaginary worlds with their own mythologies and traditions, set apart from our reality and our conventional perspectives of time, place, and identity. Focuses on a few significant fantasy writers from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, allowing for sustained study of long productions such as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. With its intensive focus on modern and recent developments in fantasy, the course is distinct from ENGLIT 1572: Fantasy and Romance.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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