Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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4 | Fall 2011 | Tracy, Robert
Tracy, Robert |
M 3-5 (9/12 - 10/31 only) | Room L20 of Unit II (2650 Haste St.) |
In David Copperfield (1849-50), Charles Dickens writes a novel about a novelist named David Copperfield who writes a novel about Charles Dickens--for many of David's adventures and ordeals mirror Dickens's own experiences that prepared him to be a novelist. In the novel he called "his favorite child" Dickens examines his own right--and David's--to be considered "the hero of his own life." The novel explores the role of emotional pain in the development of a novelist, while at the same time surrounding David with some of the comically grotesque characters that peopled Dickens's imagination. We will be examining David Copperfield as a confessional novel, as a success story, as a major English novel, and as popular entertainment.
David Copperfield was originally published as a twenty-part serial and we will read it serially, adjusting the text to fit our eight-week schedule. I ask you to read chapters 1-9 for our first meeting. Please try not to read ahead of assignment for subsequent meetings.
This class will start on September 12 and end on October 31.
This 1-unit course may not be counted as one of the twelve courses required to complete the English major.
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