21L.485  20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2010
Professor David Thorburn
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Tues Thurs Primary Reading:
Sept.      
    9 John Crowe Ransome, "Captain Carpenter" (handout)

  14   Joyce, "An Encounter"  
    16 Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
SUMMARY OF SEPT. 9 CLASS DUE (Maximum two pages)
21 23 Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Thorburn, "Introduction," Initiation

28   Conrad, The Shadow-Line
    30 Ford, The Good Soldier
Oct.      
  5   Ford, The Good Soldier

    7 EXAM
  12   D.H. Lawrence, “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter”
    14

Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"


  19   Kafka, Selected stories
    21 Joyce, from Dubliners: "Araby," "Two Gallants,” “Grace”
FIRST PAPER DUE
  26 28 Joyce, Ulysses, chapters 4, 18
Nov.      
  2 4 Woolf, To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway
  9 -- Woolf, To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway
  16   Faulkner, "That Evening Sun," "Old Man"
    18

Faulkner, "That Evening Sun," "Old Man"
SECOND PAPER DUE


  23 --

EXAM
  30   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”
Dec.      
    2 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”
  7 9

Nabokov, Pale Fire
Summary perspectives: the moral vision of modern fiction


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