ENG 2312 Literary Tradition IV
Reflections upon the novel as the distinctive modern contribution to the literary tradition. Studies in 19th and 20th-century European and American fiction with emphasis on the portrait of human beings in a modern society confronting their ample freedoms and the attendant problems of those freedoms. A growing unease with God, nature and tradition as authoritative guides for human living gives rise to new notions of human community in a period of immense social and economic and political change. Further training in the writing of the interpretative essay, together with sequenced assignments leading to composition of a short story displaying the techniques of narrative fiction. Moby Dick, Mansfield Park, Crime & Punishment, the "Ike McCaslin" stories in Go Down, Moses and other short stories or novellas.
Offered
Fall and Spring