ENGLISH 779 / The Times We Live In

3 unit(s)

S. O’Brien (cross-listed as CULTR ST 779 and GLOBALST 779)

This course looks at changing conceptions of time in the late 20th/early 21st century in the context of globalization. We will survey a range of literary texts, films and social movements (e.g., Slow Food) that explore ideas about temporality, with a focus on the ways in which culture resists and/or supports such trends as acceleration, synchronization and the erosion of boundaries between private and public time.