We will closely read and analyze four or five twentieth-century novels. Candidates include Proust’s Swann in Love (from Remembrance of Things Past), selections from Joyce’s Ulysses, Woof’s Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov’s Lolita or Pale Fire, Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, McCabe’s The Butcher Boy, Robinson’s Housekeeping, Adiga’s The White Tiger or Last Man in Tower, Faulkner’s The Hamlet, McEwan’s The Innocent, Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater, Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust, Spark’s The Life of Miss Jean Brodie, McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and Morrison’s Song of Solomon.