Course details

Name: ENLT - 376

Title: MODERN EUROPEAN NOVEL

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
How can one challenge past traditions and conventions and still retain a sense of self? Yet what is so wrong with modern life that the tyrannies of the past--bourgeois family, gender inequality, and oppressive laws--still seem to haunt the present? During the so-called Modernist period--ca. 1910 to 1930--writers and intellectuals pondered these same questions, ones that we still consider today. In five notable novels, we will read and discuss characters who find themselves caught between things—between two world wars, between individualism and society, between male and female identity, between national borders, and between desire and reason. Students will leave this course with a profound appreciation for the ways in which the novel has evolved from 1866 to 1984. In order to understand the past and future of Modernist novelists (Hesse's Steppenwolf, Breton's Nadja, and Kafka's The Trial), we will read a predecessor (Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment) and a successor (Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being).

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
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• Other American (TE 1d)

Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No