The Modern Novel

3 Credits

Explore the remarkable development and transformation of the novel in the twentieth century. Learn about the development of the novel through realism, modernism, and postmodernism, from the transformations made by major modernists like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, and Katherine Ann Porter to playful, unusual and fascinating postmodern and contemporary fiction by Ralph Ellison, Kathy Acker, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and others.