A Syllabus for novel by dr.sharif

Long Story [Novel], a graduate course
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
Fall 1392 (2013)
Taught by: Dr. Negar Sharif
   
Course Description and Objectives: This is a course for graduate students of English Literature including critical reading and analysis of novels. The students are expected to read the assigned works of literature in depth and become familiar with some concepts and approaches regarding the analysis of long fictional works.

Course Requirements: The students are asked to study the text of the assigned novels and some readings related to studying narrative fiction. [The reading list will be introduced.] They are also expected to participate actively in class discussions, presentations and written assignments.
Grading: exam 13, assignments and writings 4, Class activities and presentations 3
Essays: Essay topics will be introduced in the class. They need to be handed in on due dates.

Syllabus:
 (NOTE: This syllabus is introduced only as a 'framework' for class discussions and further points.)

Session 1 Introduction, Studying novels, different trends

s. 2& 3 & 4. Literary Work: The Catcher in the Rye
Suggested Discussion Topic(s): modernist novel, themes, narration and characterization

s. 5& 6. Literary Work: To the Lighthouse
Suggested Discussion Topics: multiplicity of voices, perspective, narrative techniques

s.7& 8. Literary Work: The Great Gatsby
Suggested Discussion Topics: (modernist) themes, language, narrator and focalizer

s. 9. Suggested Discussion Topic(s): narrative techniques and contemporary fiction, Postmodernism and Literature; Postmodernist Fiction

s. 10 &11. Literary Work: Slaughterhouse Five
Suggested Discussion Topics: identity, intertextuality, Postmodernist narrative techniques

s. 12 & 13 Literary Work: Leviathan
Suggested Discussion Topic(s): worlds and ontological questions in postmodernist fiction

s. 14 Suggested Discussion Topic(s): Contemporary fiction, review











Reading List:

Part 1: Fiction: complete edition of the introduced novels: The Catcher in the Rye, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse Five, Leviathan

Part 2: Books and Articles

Lewis, Barry “Postmodernism and Literature (or: World Salad Days, 1960-90)” the Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Ed: Stuart Sim. London: Routledge, 2001.

McHale, Brian Postmodernist Fiction.  London: Routledge, 1996.

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith, Narrative Fiction.  NY: Routledge, 2002.p

Takeuchi Yasuhiro, “The Burning Carousel and the Carnivalesque: Subversion and Transcendence at the Close of the Catcher in the Rye” Studies in the Novel. Volume: 34. Issue: 3: 2002.

Woolf, Virginia

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