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[FALL 2008]
ENGL W4501x Modernism and Cultural Change
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Prof.
Sarah Cole
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
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This course begins with the premise that British literature of the first half of the twentieth century was shaped by profound concerns about the present. If modernism is often understood as a unified and coherent aesthetic movement, championing its own modernity, we will pay attention to its spirit of ambivalence, contradiction, and deep conflict, especially with respect to such vexed topics as gender and sexuality, empire and nationalism, war and revolution, production and consumption, and political power. Our particular angle for addressing these large issues will be the representation of past, present, and future in a range of literary works. Authors include Wells, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, Achebe, and Orwell.
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| SYLLABUS |
Tues., Sept. 2 |
Introduction
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Thur., Sept. 4 |
Introduction |
Tues., Sept. 9 |
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (I-V) |
Thur., Sept. 11 |
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (complete);
begin Heart of Darkness |
Tues., Sept. 16 |
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (I-II) |
Thur., Sept. 18 |
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (complete) |
Tues., Sept. 23 |
Selected Essays
(Walter Pater, Edward Carpenter,
Georg Simmel, Padraic Pearse);
reading response due Monday, Sept. 22 |
Thur., Sept. 25 |
E. M. Forster, “The Eternal Moment,”
James Joyce, “Araby” |
Tues., Sept. 30 |
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1-18) |
Thur., Oct. 2 |
E. M. Forster, Howards End (19-30) |
Tues., Oct. 7 |
E. M. Forster, Howards End (complete) |
Thur., Oct. 9 |
No class. Yom Kippur |
Tues., Oct. 14 |
Selected writings of WWI;
first paper due Monday, Oct. 13 |
Thur., Oct. 16 |
Selected writings of WWI |
Tues., Oct. 21 |
William Butler Yeats, Selected Poetry |
Thur., Oct. 23 |
William Butler Yeats, Selected Poetry |
Tues., Oct. 28 |
James Joyce, “The Dead”;
reading response due Wed, Oct. 29 |
Tues., Oct. 30 |
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1-2) |
Tues., Nov. 4 |
No class. Don’t forget to vote! |
Thur., Nov. 6 |
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (3-4) |
Tues., Nov. 11 |
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (complete);
begin Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
Thur., Nov. 13 |
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (I-XI) |
Tues., Nov. 18 |
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (complete) |
Thur., Nov. 20 |
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (I-II) |
Tues., Nov. 25 |
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (complete);
second paper due Monday, Nov. 24 |
Thur., Nov. 27 |
No class. Happy Thanksgiving! |
Tues., Dec. 1 |
George Orwell, 1984 (I-II) |
Thur., Dec. 3 |
George Orwell, 1984 (complete) |
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