ENGLISH 195 - The Modern Novel in a Global Context

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Harvard University

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Description:

This course approaches the novel as a world genre formally responsive to the conflicts of empire, decolonization, and globalization. Taking "the personal as political" as our starting point, we will examine how boundary-crossing intimacies, long-distance connections, and cultural curiosity become part of the novel's transnational development. Major authors from the modernist to contemporary eras, including Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Tayeb Salih, Amitav Ghosh, W.G. Sebald, Arundhati Roy.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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