ENGL 248

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Brit, Amer & Contin Fiction

Credit: 3 hours.

Examination of important thematic and structural relationships - influences, parallels, and variations - among selected major works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; readings chosen from works of Bronte, Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf, James, Faulkner, Bellow, Oates, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Flaubert, Camus, Kafka, Mann, Hesse, Moravia, and Pavese. All works read in English.

Same as CWL 269. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 248 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42911	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Info: Inventing the Modern: The European Novel from 1850-1950 - If you?ve ever wondered how modern culture and modern social relationships came to be, then this is the class for you. Our survey of will begin by exploring how the nineteenth century writers, Gustav Flaubert and Fyodor Dostoyevsky re-imagined the novel by introducing a kind of style and layers of psychological darkness and complexity that were wholly new to the form. We?ll go on to observe how writers like Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf went on to explore the social, political, sexual, and ideological concerns that would reshape Europe during the twentieth century. Requirements will include active class-participation, weekly journal entries, two short papers, and two exams. Texts will include: Flaubert?s Madame Bovary, Dostoyevsky?s The Idiot, Conrad?s Under Western Eyes, Proust?s Swann?s Way, and Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway.