EN201 The European Novel
This is one of two Pathway Requirements for the World and Comparative Literature Pathway and one of the Distributional Requirements for the English Pathway for 2013/14. Can also be selected as an option under the remaining Pathways.
The European Novel module seeks to provide an understanding of the novel form through the comparative study of works of European long fiction from the late 18th to the mid 20th century. It aims to explore key moments in the European history and geography of the form and the range of narrative possibilities and thematic concerns these encompass, focusing in particular on differences of period, culture and nation; on the nature of narrative and the formal techniques and devices of narration; and on the complex issues raised by theories of narrative, comparativism, and the idea of realism.
2012-2013 syllabus:
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)
Stendhal, Scarlet and Black (1830)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
Émile Zola, Germinal (1885)
Knut Hamsun, Hunger (1890)
Pío Baroja, The Quest (1904)
Karin Michaëlis, The Dangerous Age (1910)
Dezsö Kosztolányi, Skylark (1924)
Halldór Laxness, The Atom Station (1948)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958)
