LIT 310 - Modern European Fiction

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Antioch University-System Administration

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The early twentieth century marks a time of crisis in Western culture. It was the advent of an era that historian Eric Hobsbawm has labeled "the age of extremes."World war laid waste to the empires and social order of the past along with previously unshakeable faith in reason and progress. And it was a time when fixed notions of the self and its place in the world, notions of reality itself, and long-established forms of art collapsed in a radical break with tradition that gave way to an utterly new form language in all of the arts. This course focuses on modernist innovations in the art of fiction by examining four pioneering texts -- all of which can be read and reread without exhausting their depths -- as seen in this rich and tumultuous historical context: Death in Venice (1911) by Thomas Mann, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914) by James Joyce, Swann's Way (1913) by Marcel Proust, and To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.antioch.edu

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(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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