2nd Dec 2015 1:30pm
Westlain 217, Falmer Campus
Will Norman, University of Kent.
‘In this talk I will be exploring how the teaching of crime narratives at undergraduate level helps students to think about the relationship between politics and literary form. Using Franco Moretti’s classic essay on detective fiction (‘Clues’ in Signs Taken for Wonders) as a starting point, we’ll discuss how analysis of the formal qualities of crime fiction might enable students to think through questions of ideology and the sociological functions of mass genres.’
Will Norman is a senior lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time (Routledge, 2012), various articles on crime fiction and has a book forthcoming from Johns Hopkins about transatlantic exiles in mid-century America. He teaches modules on American crime fiction, Cold War culture and Marxism.
This new initiative from the University of Brighton seeks to engage teachers of literature in Higher Education, post-16 teaching and transition to Higher Education, in round-table seminar discussions led by leading practitioners.
For information please contact Richard Jacobs
