The British Modernist Novel, 1900--1945
ENGL 236
Fall 2020
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01
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This course will introduce students to British novels from the modernist period of 1900-1945, a time of massive formal innovation. We will explore the formal, thematic, and philosophical features of British modernist fiction through close readings of novels and through occasional readings in essays of the period and more recent criticism. This course will provide a broad, if necessarily selective, picture of modernist fiction in all its considerable variety. In addition to some iconic examples of high modernism, we will read some arguably minor novels as well. Much of our attention will be on modernism's recurrent concern with the meaning of modernity itself. Are modernism and modernity identical, antagonistic, or mutually dependent? How is modernism implicated in Britain's waning imperial fortunes? Is modernism avant-garde or canonical, elitist or engaged with popular culture? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
E.M. Forster, A ROOM WITH A VIEW
James Joyce, DUBLINERS
Ford Maddox Ford, THE GOOD SOLDIER
Virginia Woolf, MRS. DALLOWAY
Jean Rhys, VOYAGE IN THE DARK
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three short essays (3-4 pages) and one longer final essay (7-9 pages) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the fulfillment of the British Literature and Theory & Literary Forms concentrations of the English major. It also provides a Research Option for prospective Honors Thesis writers. |
| Instructor(s): Bachner,Sally Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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