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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | ENGLH101B001 |
| Course Title | Theories of the Novel |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | English |
| Instructor | Millen,Alexander |
| Times and Days | MW 10:00am-11:25am
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2477 This course introduces students to the genre of the novel in English with a focus on desire, loss, and literary form. In order to ask the questions, Why and how do we read novels? What does this experience enable? we will interrogate theories of the novel, its early formation and contemporary forms. We will also consider changing cultural representations of subjectivity, nation, race, gender, and ways of reading. How is the reader variously constructed as witness to (and participant in) desire and its demise? How do developments in narrative voice influence the idea of fiction as a didactic, pleasurable, speculative and/or imaginative space? What is the novels role in effecting social change across centuries and geographies? ; Open to majors and non-majorsno prerequisites. Limit: 20 students. , A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts), B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: , A, B) |
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