21L.003 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

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 …
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.

Course Info

Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments
A drawing of men in a small boat trying to harpoon a giant whale.
Whale being harpooned. Colored engraving (n.d.). (Image courtesy of the Hart Nautical Collection, MIT Museum).