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Contemporary Fiction

ENG 370

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The first quarter of the 21st-century is just behind us. Since Y2K we've seen extraordinary, seemingly unprecedented change, globally. Wars, famines, climate disasters, scientific breakthroughs and technological transformation. Just ask your parents what the internet was like in 2000! Has literature kept pace with these changes? Can fiction teach us what human intelligence is and should become? As future leaders of your generation, whatever leadership will call for - how can the literature of the present help you find our way?