21L.485  20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2009
Professor David Thorburn
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Tues Thurs Primary Reading:
Sept.   10 John Crowe Ransome, "Captain Carpenter" (handout)

15   Joyce, "An Encounter"  

  17 Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
SUMMARY OF SEPT. 9 CLASS DUE (Maximum two pages)

22 24 Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Thorburn, "Introduction," Initiation

29   Conrad, The Shadow-Line

Oct.   1 Ford, The Good Soldier

6   Ford, The Good Soldier

  8 EXAM

  -- 15 D.H. Lawrence, “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter”

  20  

Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"


  22 Joyce, from Dubliners: "Araby," "Two Gallants," "Grace" 
FIRST PAPER DUE
27 29 Joyce, Ulysses, chapters 4,18

-- 19 EXAM

Nov. 3 5 Woolf, To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway

  10 12 Faulkner, "That Evening Sun," "Old Man"

  17 19 Babel, “The Story of My Dovecot,” “Crossing the Zbrucz,” “Pan Apolek,” “My First Goose” “The King,” “How It Was Done in Odessa,” “The Sin of Jesus”

    19 SECOND PAPER DUE

  24


-- EXAM

Dec. 1 3 Nabokov, Pale Fire

8   Pale Fire

    10

Summary perspectives: the moral vision of modern fiction


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