Literature 311 - Anglo-American Modernist Fiction:Form,History,and Gender

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Bard College

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GSS As Virginia Woolf observed, "'The proper stuffof fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss." This course examines Anglo-American modernist narrative as it was fashioned by writers who fractured realist conventions of narration and championed formal innovation in the representation of human consciousness. Works under consideration include James's The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, Forster's Howard's End , Joyce? ? Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, selected short stories by Mansfield, Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love, and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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