Assess graduate students' understanding of narrative reliability and focalization in 20th-century modernist novels: define and distinguish concepts (reliable vs unreliable narrators; internal, external, and zero focalization; narrative distance; free indirect discourse; stream of consciousness); identify techniques in short passages from canonical modernists (Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Conrad, Kafka); apply Genette/Booth/Rimmon-Kenan frameworks and perform close-reading to evaluate interpretive effects and historical/contextual implications.