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| 0680-3237-01 | The Modernist Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course will aim at a presentation of some of the main trends in the modernist novel. The Modernist novel's relationship with its readers is a rather demanding one: it requires attention to and interest in long and complicated plots, variety and depth of characters, the presentation of social and ethical dilemmas, and quite often all of them together. It refuses to provide an unequivocal and easy answer to the issues it raises. We will try to illustrate this special relationship by reading a few major Modernist novels by Frantz Kafka, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Garcia-Marquez and Toni Morrison. The acquaintance with a few of the trends and possibilities of the Modernist novel will open the way for a discussion of its status as the molder as well as reflector of the modern and even postmodern consciousness.