Introduction to Fiction

Course Description

This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.

Other OCW Versions

OCW has published multiple versions of this subject.

• 21L.003 Reading Fiction: Imaginary Journeys (Fall 2015)
• 21L.003-1 Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families (Spring 2007)
• 21L.003-2 Reading Fiction (Spring 2007)
• 21L.003-2 Reading Fiction (Fall 2006)
• 21L.003 Introduction to Fiction (Spring 2002)

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• Literature > Comparative Literature