ENGH 361: Continental Fiction, 1880-1950

ENGH 361-001: Continental Fiction, 1880-1950
(Spring 2020)

03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR

Section Information for Spring 2020

ENGH 361: Fiction from Chekhov to Camus

This course focuses on the leading works of international fiction from France, the German-speaking areas, and Russia between 1880 and 1950. After sampling several shorter fictions by Chekhov and Mann, we shall turn to two of the most famous and original novels from just before World War I, Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way and Franz Kafka’s The Trial. The course ends with crisis fiction by Zamiatin, Nabokov, Yourcenar, and Camus, written amid the upheavals leading up to and including a second world war.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Offered in cooperation with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Focuses on continental novel from beginning of 20th century to present. Includes Proust, Mann, Gide, Kafka, Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Calvino, and Garcia Marquez. Attention to influence of this literature on novel in English. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
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This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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