Spring 2008 Courses

English 137-01: Novel (Çelikkol)

T/TH 10:10-11:40am, OLRI 170

In this course we will explore the emergence and development of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and investigate the transformations of the genre in the twentieth century. We will pay special attention to the proliferation of novelistic subgenres such as the sensation novel. Our inquiries will also focus on the ways in which literary and artistic developments such as realism, modernism, and postmodernism mark the historical trajectory of the novel. Students will read literary theory and criticism in addition to novels. They will write three formal papers and three informal response papers. The reading list includes novels by authors from the U.K., the Caribbean, the U.S., and South Africa, all writing in English in the original.

*First day attendance required* This course fulfills the College's new writing requirement (the "W" requirement). This course also serves as a gateway course for the English major.

Spring 2008 Course Listings