The Novel, The World

Combining perspectives of the novels of the world as imaginary force with a sense of reality and as protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; early modern Spain, China, and continental Europe; theories of the novel; 19th-century realism; modernist and postmodern experiments; and the contemporary avant gardes of the world, including South Asia, and the hemispheric and transnational Americas.