Whale being harpooned. Colored engraving (n.d.). (Image courtesy of the Hart Nautical Collection, MIT Museum).
Instructor(s)
Wyn Kelley
MIT Course Number
21L.003
As Taught In
Fall 2003
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
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.
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