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The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel | [Professor Katherine Elkins]

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The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel

by Professor Katherine Elkins
Narrated by Professor Katherine Elkins
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LENGTH

4 hrs and 30 mins
RELEASE DATE

03-08-13
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A recipient of the Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship, Katherine Elkins is also the co-director of the Integrated Program in the Humane Studies at Kenyon College. In this lecture series, Elkins examines the development of the modern novel by investigating four great modernist authors: James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. The lectures explore the authors’ most respected works and illustrate how each author’s unique style and vision made a major contribution to the look and shape of the novel today.

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