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This module examines how literary forms change rapidly and radically through experimentation and asks why this happens. It introduces students to the ways in which literary forms (in drama, fiction, prose, or poetry) undergo sudden alterations, explores the reasons behind such changes, and asks students to consider the aesthetic, political, historical and literary impact of such moments of formal experimentation. The module will discuss case studies in experimentation, concentrating on the formal and textual nature of that experimentation, while setting texts in their historical moments. Case studies might include texts which exemplify: the rise of the novel; Romantic poetry; magic realism; modernism; postmodernism.
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