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Modern Fiction

3-0-9 units. HASS-H · Undergraduate

Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes include the role of the artist in the modern period; the representation of psychological and sexual experience; and the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character. Works by Conrad, Kipling, Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor if content differs.

Fall 2015

Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes include the role of the artist in the modern period; the representation of psychological and sexual experience; and the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character. Works by Conrad, Kipling, Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

Readings

  • Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure (Oxford World’s Classics) . Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199537020.
    Required
  • Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim (Penguin Classics) . Penguin Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780141441610.
    Required
  • Kipling, Rudyard. Kim (Oxford World’s Classics) . Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536467. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
    Required
  • Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier (Penguin Classics) . Penguin Classics, 2007. ISBN: 9780141441849.
    Required
  • Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes (The Viking Critical Library) . Penguin Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780140155037.
    Required
  • Forster, E. M. A Passage to India . Mariner Books, 1965. ISBN: 9780156711425.
    Required
  • Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (Everyman’s Library) . Everyman’s Library, 1992. ISBN: 9780679405375.
    Required

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None U (Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H Can be repeated for credit.

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