English 190
Research Seminar: Laughter and Vision: Explorations in the Novel of Ideas
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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| 2 | Fall 2018 | Danner, Mark
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Note new time: Tuesdays 2-5 | Note new location: 300 Wheeler |
Description
In this seminar we will trod fiction's "path not taken"—the tradition of the novel of ideas that, with the triumph of Realism in the nineteenth century of Dickens and Balzac, became mainstream fiction's dark shadow. Our exploration will stretch from Rabelais, in the sixteenth century, to Thomas Mann, Walker Percy and Iris Murdoch in the twentieth, with stops in between for Laurence Sterne, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Herman Melville and John Cowper Powys. Throughout we will focus on what this tradition can tell us about what the novel is, what it became—and what it can be.
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