English 343 - Fiction of the Modern

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Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Fiction responding to the radical changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries-industrialization, urbanization, colonization, mass culture, the women's movement and the influence of Marx and Freud. We will study writers who searched for new ways to represent and explore experiences that the traditional novel did not or could not express. The thematic focus of the course will vary from year to year, but will always include comparison between writers from the modernist period with one or two later 20th century or contemporary novels. Readings by writers such as Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, D. H. Lawrence, Jack London, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Samuel Selvon, Monique Ali, Sadie Smith, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and writers representing the Harlem Renaissance. (Claire Buck)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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