What is deemed worthy of the term "epic"? What expectations and internal biases do we bring to such claims? What opportunities for reconceiving the landscape?historical, aesthetical, political, ecological - does the contemporary and specifically female approach to (or subversion of) the epic raise in the collapse of narrative and lyric? In this seminar we will read closely long and at times unwieldy texts in consideration of what such breadth and positioning of works under a singular title offers to the reader - and writer.

How do our most propulsive novels undo both ambition and voice? What aspects of unraveling make us care for a character or milieu? What makes up our contemporary sensibility regarding containment, unraveling, the diasporic, the archipelagic? This seminar for writers will help us consider how great work undoes its premises. Dramaturgy, theory, and concepts such as those of the technoself will help us consider forms of social interaction, while we read novels such as those by Adam, Aw, Buckley, Choi, Desai, Kitamura, Markovits, Miller, Orner, Reva, Szalay, Wood, and Xhoga.

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