This course covers American crime narratives, emphasizing the hard-boiled and noir fiction that flourished between the Jazz Age and the cold war as well as the police procedural and the true crime novel. Popular texts are approached as examples of craft art which have provided paradigms for major American authors, including Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Sources include films such as
The Godfather,
Blade Runner, and
The Dark Knight. The recorded lectures are from the 2010
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course English 180. (4 credits)
ENGL E-198 Modern American Crime Narratives (23659)
Course tuition:
noncredit $1,045,
undergraduate credit $1,045,
graduate credit $2,000
, beginning Jan. 28. Optional sections to be arranged.
