Description
The novel has the virtue of communicating the concreteness of an experience of values in a way that is inaccessible in other forms of communication. It presents women and men as totally engaged in the project of discovering and creating values for themselves in the world. The ???metaphysical??? novel deals with the many basic issues, such as freedom, that affect us as humans in the ordinary language of lived experiences described by the author. This course analyzes metaphysical novels, each of which deals with questions of experience, particularly the experience of values. In the process, students will work at the development of criteria for the interpretation of the novels they read.