Major works in English, American, and European, fiction, from the 17th century to the present., Goals include increasing awareness of the, particular kinds of knowledge and perception that, the novel makes available; considering the variety, of ways in which novels braid moral and aesthetic, concerns; understanding how novels respond both to, everyday human experience and to previous literary, history; and heightening appreciation for the, range of pleasures that the novel can afford., Writers may include Cervantes, Sterne, Austen,, Flaubert, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Kundera, Pynchon.
- Teacher: Lyell Asher