English 341 - Twentieth Century British Novel

Institution:

Macalester College

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Fiction from a range of British, Irish, and diasporic novelists, including "modernist" authors (E.M. Forster, JosephConrad, Ford Maddox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen), in addition to postwar writers (George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith). Works will be considered in historical, cultural, and aesthetic context, with an emphasis on the evolving form of the novel as a literary genre. Please consult English Department website for particular thematic focus. Alternate years. (4 credits)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.macalester.edu

Phone Number:

(651) 696-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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