ENGLISH 159 - The Reflection of Reality: Novels of the 19th and 20th-Century

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This course will focus on the reflection and refraction of reality in modern novels of the last century and a half. A number of famous novels will be carefully studied for their conception of reality, and the best means of conveying that reality to the reader. We will read novels by Flaubert, George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, and Ian McEwan.

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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