Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison

A portrait of Herman Melville.

Photograph of an etching of Herman Melville after a portrait by Joseph O. Eaton. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number: LC-USZ62-135949 (b&w film copy neg.)])

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21L.705 / WGS.512

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Fall 2006

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus.

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Wyn Kelley. 21L.705 Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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