Literature 358 - Exile and Estrangement in Modern Fiction

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Bard College

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RES Selected short fiction and novels by such writers as Mann, Kafka, Nabokov, Camus, Singer, Kundera, andNaipaul are read and discussed, with an eye toward their literary value and the issue of exile-estrangement as a biographical fact and a way of life. Topics of foreignness and identity (ethnic, political, sexual), rejection and loss, estrangement and challenge, and protean mutability are discussed in connection with socialhistorical situations and as major literary themes. Preference is given to language area and literature majors.

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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

Calendar System:

Semester

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