Jan 04, 2025  
2021-2022 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies 
    
2021-2022 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
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AREL 828 - Ways of Looking at Fiction

3 credits
Offers a survey of both short and long fiction and introduces a number of critical approaches to that fiction. Students will have the opportunity: to rough out a historical development by looking at texts through the “isms” (e.g. realism, regionalism, etc.) they occupy, as well as those they challenge and/or revise; and to scrutinize the permutations of a form (the Bildungsroman) over time and in the hands of different writers. Texts may range from “classic” short works such as Faulkner’s Barn Burning to novellas such as James’s The Turn of the Screw to contemporary novels such as Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. The reading load will at times be heavy, but always enjoyable.



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