MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE

All literature must be read as a symbolic meditation on the destiny of community. (Fredric Jameson)

Summer School August 9-23, 2009 (LMU München):

"New Forms of Fiction - Exploring blendings and transgressions of fiction and reality"

Fiction creates fictional worlds and thus imaginary spaces. Over the last few decades, new forms of art in both high and popular culture have displayed a common tendency to produce new forms of fiction that significantly change the ways in which they create fictional spaces, especially by blending the real space of the recipient and the imaginary space constituted by the fictional work. To explore and describe these phenomena, we want to analyse and compare a wide variety of new forms of fiction.

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