ENGL 235 - Narratives of Personal Development

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University of Richmond

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Analysis of literature of personal growth and human development, from autobiography and biography to various forms of fiction: bildungsroman, novels of education, fictionalized biography, autobiography in verse, etc. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course examines novels and short fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present and from a variety of national traditions - works by writers as diverse as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Milan Kundera, and Joyce Carol Oates - all of which recount stories of personal growth and development. The German word Bildung: the formation, education, cultivation of a person, has come to be used in English to identify such narratives. The course explores the formal and thematic elements of the Bildung narrative, some of its classic representatives in which characters develop through incorporation into larger social frameworks, more recent examples in which characters learn about themselves through resistance to larger social forces, and still others in which elements of the Bildung narrative are combined with more experimental methods of storytelling.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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