English N125D
The 20th-Century Novel
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Session | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer 2017 | Jones, Donna V.
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MTTh 2-4 | Dwinelle 215 | A |
Book List
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie; Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: One Hundred Years of Solitude; Gibson, William: Neuromancer; Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
Description
This course is a general survey of the 20th-century novel. The novel is the quintessential form of expression of modernity and modern subjectivity. In this survey of key works of the century, we will explore the novel form as it is framed by these three thematics--history, modernism, and empire. These are some questions we will address: How have the vicissitudes of modernity led to a re-direction of historical narration within the novel? How has modernist aesthetic experimentation re-shaped the very form of the novel? And lastly, how has the phenomenon of imperialism, the asymmetrical relations of power between center and periphery, widened the scope of fictive milieu?
This course will be taught in Session A, from May 22 to June 29.
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