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.
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