Poster for a theatrical adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (1900). (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number: LC-USZC2-1459 (color film copy slide)].)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Stephen Tapscott
MIT Course Number
21L.310
As Taught In
Fall 2006
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course focuses on works that caught the popular imagination in the past or present. It emphasizes texts that are related by genre, theme or style. The books studied in this course vary from semester to semester, and the topic for Fall 2006 is Detective Fictions.
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Other OCW Versions
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