English 227 - MODERN BRITISH FICTION

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Michael Gorra
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
41417-S16
SEELYE 102
mgorra@smith.edu
Lectures, with occasional discussion, on the English novel from Conrad to the present day. The historical contexts and the formal devices (management of narrative and plot, stylistic and structural innovations, characterization, literary allusiveness) of works by such writers as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, F.M. Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Shirley Hazzard, V.S. Naipaul.
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