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The Spy Novel |
Monday, 01:15 PM - 02:45 PM: GWZ 2 5.16
Fall Term 2009
Olen Steinhauer
Course sheet
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| The perennially popular genre, the spy novel, gained ground with the two world wars and blossomed during the Cold War, at times achieving a level of sophistication and nuance to rival literary fiction. In The Spy Novel, we will read and discuss a selection of the best of the genre in English, with such writers as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Robert Littell, Charles McCarry, John Le Carre, Len Deighton and Alan Furst. What makes these works great? Do they ever "transcend the genre" to reach real literary status? Since your professor is a spy novelist himself--and not a lecturer--students will be encouraged and expected to take part in extensive discussions of the readings. Grades will be based on class participation and an end-of-term paper.
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