Courses:

Course Info

• 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 readings, essay 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.