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Prof. David Thorburn
14N-335
Office hours: Thursday, 11-12:30
Fall 2010
Course Description
Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character of so many modern books. Works by such writers as Conrad, Kipling, Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov.
This course may be taken for either 9 or 12 credits. See Course Requirements page for details.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-2:30
Room 1-277
Joseph Conrad.
Illustration courtesy
Barbara Thorburn.