Literature 433 - Serial Fiction

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Bard College

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Often fiction writers-Balzac, Galsworthy, Doyle, Joyce, Hammett, Powell, Settle, and Updike, to name a few-generate a fictional world larger than one book, with characters returning again and again, sometimes maturing, sometimes fading into relative insignificance, sometimes seeming to die and be reborn. The reasons for creating a series of connected novels are various: the compulsions of the writer, the audience's appetite, the marketability of recognition, and nostalgia. This seminar focuses on several multinovels, including several of Anthony Trollope's Barchester novels; Ford Maddox Ford's World War I tetralogy Parade's End ; andthree novels by ThomasWolfe: Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; and You Can't Go Home Again.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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