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This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
Joseph Conrad. (Illustration courtesy of Barbara Thorburn.)
Prof. David Thorburn
21L.485
Fall 2002
Undergraduate
Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character of so many modern books. Works by such writers as Conrad, Kipling, Isaac Babel, Kafka, James, Lawrence, Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Nabokov.
OCW has published multiple versions of this subject. 
David Thorburn. 21L.485 20th-Century Fiction. Fall 2002. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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