Topics in the Twentieth Century: EN4224
2004-2005 Semester I
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CONTENTS
On this page you will find the following information about the
course EN 3204:
Lecturers
Course
Description
Primary
Texts
Secondary
Texts
You can also follow these links to web pages containing:
Lecture
Notes (dedicated to the 2004 syllabus only)
Lecture
Notes (all the modernism lectures)
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LECTURER FOR THE COURSE
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COURSE
DESCRIPTION
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The course studies selected texts from the modernist period
and examines the characteristics and contexts of the period itself. With
reference to the more general condition of modernity--considered in terms of
historical, economic and technological developments--modernism is examined in
terms of its being both a reaction to and a constituent part of modernity.
Modernism involves a set of historical engagements utilizing a number of
aesthetic, political and ideological strategies. The modernist avant garde
can be disturbing and sometimes shocking in its attempts to shake up
consciousness of the present and to rethink relations to the past and to the
future. Lectures will offer introductions not only to the texts but also to
various modernist movements and related contexts. Lectures will also look at
relationships that existed between literature and other cultural forms, like
painting, architecture and music, as well as contemporary intellectual
movements such as existential philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. The
course provides an outline of the political and social contexts that help to
define this period of rapid and drastic change. |
IVLE Module
Outline
PRIMARY
TEXTS
1. Stéphane Mallarmé. Selected Poetry and Prose. Edited by Mary Anne Caws. New York: New Directions, 1982.
2. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations Pimlico;.
3. Umbro Appolonio, ed. Futurist Manifestos. Boston, Mass.: MFA Publications, 2001.
4. Mina Loy. The Lost Lunar Baedecker: Selected Poems.
5. Sigmund Freud. The Uncanny. Translated by David McLintock with an Introduction by Hugh Haughton.
6. Katherine Mansfield. In a German Pension. Penguin Modern Classics.
Other materials will be made available throughout the course.
SECONDARY
TEXTS
Benjamin, Andrew, ed. The Problems of modernity: Adorno and Benjamin. London: Routledge, 1989.
Berman, Art. Preface to Modernism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism, 1890-1930. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978.
Bradshaw, David, ed. A Concise Companion to Modernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Childs, Peter. Modernism. London: Routledge, 2000.
Eysteinsson, Astradur. The concept of Modernism. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
McGann, Jerome J. Black riders: the visible language of modernism. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. Macmillan.
Weston, Richard. Modernism. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.
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LECTURE SCHEDULE AND NOTES
The Notes and Schedule now
have a page of their own:
The Supplementary Lecture
notes, which can be found here,
provide lecture notes not necessarily used in the lectures as well as some more
in depth studies for those who want to explore further.
ASSIGNMENTS
Students give one presentation and submit one essay due at the end of the course.
Note:
There will be an open book examination.
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