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26
July |
Lecture:
Modernism: an introduction |
An
introduction to the concept of modernism, and to some of the variety
of texts and issues with which the course will be dealing.
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tutorials this week |
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2
August |
Lecture:
Edith Wharton |
For
all that Wharton disliked the modernism of many of her contemporaries,
her concept of character is a thoroughly modern one.
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| Tutorial:
reading "Calypso" |
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Reading:
Chapter 4 ("Calypso") of Joyce's Ulysses
Eighty or so
years after its publication, Ulysses remains one of the greatest
and most extraordinarily innovative novels in English. In this introductory
tutorial, we shall get a taste for its methods by reading a single
chapter, the one which introduces us to Leopold Bloom and the problems
in store for him on this day. As this chapter encapsulates so many
of the inventions and concerns of modernist writing, it will be
useful to us as a touchstone for all the other texts in the course.
(That's not
a misprint--we will be reading chapter 4. And you haven't
got a faulty edition if it doesn't call that chapter "Calypso"--none
of them do. The title comes from the Homeric names Joyce gave each
chapter during composition, and by which they're generally known
today. For more detail on these, see the
schema on this site.)
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short assignment |
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9
August |
Lecture: James
Joyce (I)
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An
introduction to Joyce, suggesting a number of ways into a first reading
of Ulysses. This is the first of two lectures, and will
focus on the first 9 chapters of the book.
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Wharton, The Age of Innocence |
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research essay |
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16
August |
Lecture: W. B. Yeats
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From
the Celtic twilight to nationalism and politics, via a hopeless love
affair and a book dictated by spirits.
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| Tutorial:
Joyce , Ulysses (I) |
Reading:
Joyce, the first 9 chapters of Ulysses
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short assignment |
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23
August |
Lecture: Joseph Conrad
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Like
the earlier Heart of Darkness, Marlow's narration in Lord
Jim is about a crisis in empire and ethics, expressed from within
the belly of the whale.
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Yeats's poetry |
Reading:
Yeats: "The Secret Rose", "September 1913", "Easter
1916", "The Second Coming", "A Prayer for my Daughter",
"Sailing to Byzantium", "Leda and the Swan", "Among
School Children", "Byzantium", "Under Ben Bulben"
(All of these are in Volume II of The Norton Anthology of English
Literature.)
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30
August |
Lecture: T. S. Eliot
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"The existing
monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified
by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among
them." (Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent,"
1919)
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Tutorial: Conrad,
Lord Jim
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6
September |
Lecture: D. H. Lawrence
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Class,
sexual difference and identity, confusion, and an invisible war.
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T. S. Eliot's poetry and criticism |
Reading:
Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste
Land, "Tradition and the Individual Talent".
(All of these are in Volume II of The Norton Anthology of English
Literature.)
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13
September |
Reading
week:
no classes |
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20
September |
Lecture: W. H. Auden
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"For
poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making ..." (Auden, "In Memory of W.
B. Yeats," 1939)
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Lawrence, Women in Love |
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Due:
Research essay (group 1)--4.30
pm, Thursday 23 September
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26
September - 2 October |
Midsemester
break: no classes |
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4
October |
Lecture: Virginia
Woolf
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Sexual politics
and a microscope onto the domestic, in a book which contains one
of the most genuinely shocking sentences in the English novel.
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Tutorial: Auden, poetry
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Reading:
Auden, "Petition", "On this Island", "Spain
1937", "Musée
des Beaux Arts", "Lullaby", "In Memory of W.
B. Yeats", "Their Lonely Betters", "In Praise
of Limestone", "The Shield of Achilles"
(All
of these are in Volume II of The Norton Anthology of English
Literature.)
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11
October |
Lecture:
Gertrude Stein
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"I never
repeat that is while I am writing. ... As I say what one repeats
is the scene in which one is acting, the days in which one is living,
the coming and going which one is doing, anything one is remembering
is a repetition, but existing as a human being, that is being listening
and hearing is never repetition." (Stein, "Portraits and
Repetition," 1935)
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Tutorial: Woolf, To
the Lighthouse
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18
October |
Lecture: James Joyce
(II)
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The second
of two lectures, focussing on the final 9 chapters of Ulysses,
and some of the implications of the radicality of their stylistic
play.
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Tutorial: Stein, writings
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Reading:
Stein, "Matisse", "Before the Flowers of Friendship
Faded Friendship Faded", Ida, extracts from Tender
Buttons and lectures on writing.
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25
October |
No lecture this week
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Tutorial: Joyce, Ulysses
(II)
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Reading:
Joyce, the last 9 chapters of Ulysses
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Research essay (group 2)--4.30
pm, Thursday 27 October |
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31
October - 6 November |
Study vacation |
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7
- 19 November |
Examination
period
Exam at date to be announced |
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Due:
Research essay (group 3)--4.30
pm, Thursday 10 November |
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