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  • Course Number / Code:
  • 21L.485 (Fall 2002) 
  • Course Title:
  • 20th-Century Fiction 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Literature 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. David Thorburn

     
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21L.485 20th-Century Fiction



    Fall 2002




    Course Highlights


    This course features readingsessay assignments and exams addressing twentieth-century fiction, including an extended list of suggested paper topics.


    Course Description


    Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character of so many modern books. Works by such writers as Conrad, Kipling, Isaac Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

     

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