21L.003 | Spring 2002 | 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 non-western, and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms.

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Painting of a woman wearing an ermine-trimmed robe, writing at a desk.
Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Writing, c. 1665. (Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.)
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