Breaking the Frame: Introduction to Metafiction
Stephanie Wells
Monday, Sep. 20, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)
Repeats every Monday until Monday, Sep. 20, 2021
Price: $155.00
This course examines the genre of literature known as postmodernism, and more specifically the concept of metafiction. As readers, we’re conditioned to expect an author to follow a certain set of conventions when we open a book. What is the contract between the reader and the author, and what happens when that contract is broken, our readerly expectations violated? Whom can we trust if we can’t trust the author? In this class, we will explore the boundaries of narrative and examine texts with shifting perspectives, destabilized narrators, and contradictory plotlines.
Stephanie Wells has a B.A. from Berkeley, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from UC Davis, with a focus on modernism and postmodernism in American and British novels and poetry. She has been a literature professor for over 20 years and currently teaches at the College of Marin.
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