# Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison

Photograph of an etching of Herman Melville after a portrait by Joseph O. Eaton. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number: LC-USZ62-135949 (b&w film copy neg.)])

### Instructor(s)

Wyn Kelley

### MIT Course Number

21L.705 / WGS.512

### As Taught In

Fall 2006

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Assignments: written (no examples)

## Course Description

This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus.

## Other Versions

## Other OCW Versions

OCW has published multiple versions of this subject.

- 21L.705 Major Authors: Old English and Beowulf (Spring 2014)
- 21L.705 Major Authors: America's Literary Scientists (Fall 2010)
- 21L.705 Major Authors: Rewriting Genesis: "Paradise Lost" and Twentieth-Century Fantasy (Spring 2009)
- 21L.705 Major Authors: John Milton (Spring 2008)
- 21L.705 Masterworks in American Short Fiction (Fall 2005)
- 21L.705 Major Authors: Melville and Morrison (Fall 2003)
- 21L.705 Major Authors: Oscar Wilde and the '90's (Spring 2003)

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Wyn Kelley. 21L.705 Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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