Innovative Fiction
S06
Christopher Miller
This course takes a long view of innovative fiction, ranging over more than two hundred years of genre-bending hijinx, but only such as still suggest new things to do with fiction: no matter how long ago the books were published, they’re still new. Likely readings include Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Swift’s Tale of a Tub, Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, Stein’s Ida and The World is Round, Barnes’s Nightwood, Beckett’s Watt, Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Baker’s The Mezzanine, Brainard’s I Remember, and Davis’s Break It Down.