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Humanities

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Status: Active
SUNY ID: 166992
Full Title: Introduction to the Novel
Level: Lower Division (UG)
CIP: 2314 Literature

LIT 1540
Introduction to the Novel

0 to 4 credits

The rise of the novel and its continued relevance today. In addition to close readings of novels from a variety of time periods and countries, students read about the conditions that gave rise to the novel as a genre and various theoretical interpretations of the form and its functions.