COLT 35.02 The Novel: Memory, Desire and Narrative Time
Does its resistance to generic classification distinguish the novel as a genre? We will address this question by reading five works—excerpts from The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Swann’s Way (Marcel Proust), The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Wang Anyi), and Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)—through the lens of various critical theories that attempt to identify rhetorical elements and themes common to the form.
Instructor
Washburn