COML 3640 - [The European Novel]

(HB) (LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

Staff.

This course is designed to familiarize students with a selection of novels widely considered masterpieces of European literature. By studying works by authors from various countries and time periods, students will become acquainted with the principles of major aesthetic schools (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism) that still today underlie artistic endeavors not only in literature but also, as we will explore, in other arts such as painting, photography, and film. Our reading list includes Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Zola’s Therese Raquin, Chekhov’s short stories, Joyce’s Dubliners, Unamuno’s Mist, Wolf’s To The Lighthouse, Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Saramago’s The History of The Siege of Lisbon.