Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Classics*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EPIC AND NOVEL ***** Why did novelists of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth centuries allude to and imitate classical epic, and how did they transform the genre? In this course, we will read the Homeric poems and other ancient epics alongside such novels as Fielding's "Tom Jones", Eliot's "Middlemarch" , and Joyce's "Ulysses". The course will address questions of the following kind: how do epic heores differ from novelistic heroes? In what ways does the novel parody epic? How do the language and narrative style of the two genres differ? What role does the past play in either genre? In different years, this course will focus on different texts. Repeatable for Credit.