Summer Seminar Entitled: Modern Fiction: Portraits in Black and White
FAIN: FS-*1365-78
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Michael G. Cooke (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)
The seminar is based on close analysis of a wide array of modern works of fiction, ranging from the picaresque to the expressionistic, and from Joseph Conrad to Alice Walker. The thematic focus will be on the "outsider" figure, the formal focus on the "economy" of the novel.