The European Novel from Cervantes to Kafka
COL 112
Spring 2012
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This course provides an introductory survey that tracks the development of the European novel through its major periods--from its origins in DON QUIXOTE through the rise of the novel in 18th-century Britain to Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism.
We will focus on texts that had tremendous impact (and long afterlives) throughout Europe, that inspired responses and imitations in many different languages, and that provided European intellectual culture with archetypal characters and plots through which problems of history, politics, and philosophy were articulated--Voltaire's naïf and Dostoevsky's nihilist; Defoe's heroic bourgeois individualist and Kafka's victim of modern bureaucratic rationality. The readings will also introduce students to some of the European novel's important subgenres (romance, gothic, grotesque, the philosophical novel) and important narrative forms (epistolary novel, unreliable narration, free indirect discourse). |
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Essential Capabilities:
Intercultural Literacy, Interpretation |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE
Defoe, ROBINSON CRUSOE
Voltaire, CANDIDE
Goethe, THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
Shelly, FRANKENSTEIN
Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY
Dostoevsky, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Kafka, THE TRIAL
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly writing assignments; in-class presentation on material related to the course. |
| Instructor(s): Fitzpatrick,Joseph J. Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; ....R.. 04:15PM-05:30PM; Location: ZLKA202; SQU112; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 19 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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