Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Writing, c. 1665. (Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Elizabeth Fox
(Communication-Intensive Tutor)
Dr. Howard Eiland
MIT Course Number
21L.003
As Taught In
Spring 2002
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles, traditional and innovative, western and non-western, and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms.
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