Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Gordana Crnkovic
C LIT 570
Seattle Campus

The Novel: Theory and Practice

Study of the novel as a genre, examining two or more novels of varying national literatures. Course content varies.

Class description

The post-World War II European novel. The course will focus on novels whose distinctive quality is their setting in a different, mostly past era. We will read John Fowles’ , George Orwell’s <1984>, Kazuo Ishiguro’s , Meša Selimović’s (one of the very few European novels engaging the on a number of levels), and Milan Kundera’s . We will examine how and why these novels choose a non-contemporary setting, and what they achieve by invoking late premodern, Victorian, early twentieth-century, or relatively recent historical periods (such as the World War II or the 1960s), or else by creating a dystopian image of future. While the course engages with some major theories of the novel (e.g., by Frye or Bakhtin, from McKeon’s edited volume), it will chiefly be centered on an in-depth study of the literary works. C LIT 570 A with ENGL 550 B and SLAV 490 A.

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