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Introduction to Fiction

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.003
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2015English
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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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