Listed in: English, as ENGL-250
Alicia J. Mireles Christoff (Section 01)
Geoffrey D. Sanborn (Section 02)
An introduction to the study of the novel, through the exploration of a variety of critical terms (plot, character, point of view, tone, realism, identification, genre fiction, the book) and methodologies (structuralist, Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic). We will draw on a selection of novels in English to illustrate and complicate those terms; possible authors include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Emma Donoghue, David Foster Wallace, Monique Truong, Jennifer Egan.
Preference given to sophomores. Limited to 35 students. Spring semester. Professors Christoff and Sanborn.
Section 01
M 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM FAYE 113
W 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM FAYE 113
Section 02
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CONV 207
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CONV 207