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Litr
C266G: Studies in the Novel
Jean-Marie Kauth
Course Description:
This course will examine the issue of what novels are and what
they do by asking four main questions:
" How do novels differ from other genres and forms of language
(myth, epic, history, the spoken word, etc.?
" How do novels respond and contribute to the societies that
create them?
" How do individual novels respond and contribute to the
novelistic literary tradition?
" How do novels shape their readers' understanding of reality?
We will approach these questions by closely reading eight novels
from eighteenth through twentieth-century England and the U.S
and considering how literary critics from many different schools
approach the novel as a whole. Gender, courtship, marriage, and
sexuality will emerge as one major theme in our discussions.
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