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What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing of the past. Its sway within the global political arena is weak. Its command over Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is broken or threatened. What have novelists made of all this? What are they writing as the old empire fad
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Central to our era is the gradual movement of all the world's regions toward a uniform standard of economic and political development. In this class we will read a variety of recent narratives that partake of, dissent from, or contribute to this story, ranging from novels and poems to World Bank and IMF statements and National Geographic re
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- literature
- developing world
- third world
- poverty
- industrialization
- economic development
- human rights
- global human rights
- global issues
- global development
- literary perspective
- jamaica kincaid
- jg ballard
- john le carre
- rohinton mistry
- world bank
- national geographic
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Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality, violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How have the realities of city living influenced literature's formal and thematic techniques? How useful is it to think of literature as its own kind of "map" of urban space? Are cities too grand, heterogeneous, and shifting to be ca
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- literature
- urban
- literature
- urban experience
- city
- the waste land
- mrs. dalloway
- belfast confetti
- ripley bogle
- the lonely londoners
- modernity
- modern
- modernism
- metropolis
- postmodernism
- the gunny sack
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What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow culture, between good taste and bad judgment, and between men and women readers? This course will introduce students to the broad history of popular reading and to controversies about taste and
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- literature
- popular reading
- highbrow culture
- lowbrow culture
- gender
- taste
- theory and practice of reading
- fanfiction
- fandom
- oprah
- comics
- hypertext
- mass-market romance fiction
- mega-chain bookstore
- reader response theory
- harry potter
- sociology and history of reading
- resistance
- rare books
- fads
- social engineering
- bestseller
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