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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
English
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Ruben Borg
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesdays 14:30 or by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Ruben Borg
Course/Module description:
The course reads key texts in 20th Century poetry and fiction. Discussions will focus on characteristic features of each writer's style, and on recurring themes--such as the use of myth to imagine historical patterns, the preoccupation with the crisis of spiritual values, and the effects of technology, industrialisation and urbanisation on everyday life.
Course/Module aims:
The course aims to situate modernism in historical context, and seeks to familiarise students with the work of leading modernists, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy and W.B. Yeats.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Identify key traits of modernist poetics;
• Place modernism in historical context and discuss the modernist preoccupation with problems of historicity;
• Show familiarity with current critical developments in modernist studies;
• Show familiarity with key modernist tropes.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Course/Module Content:
-- Introduction: Cliches, tropes and critical commonplaces of Modernism. Quote from one or two articles. (Woolf on “Cinema,” Ástráður Eysteinsson, “The Concept of Modernism”)
Poetry
-- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (with “Ulysses, Order and Myth”)
-- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (with “Ulysses, Order and Myth”)
-- W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” & “Leda and the Swan”
-- W.B Yeats, “Leda and the Swan” & H.D., “Leda”
-- Mina Loy, “On Third Avenue”
-- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
-- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Prose
-- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent * (not discussed in class)
-- Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel” or “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” (with excerpts from “Modern Fiction” & “Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown”)
-- Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel” or “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” (with excerpts from “Modern Fiction” & “Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown”)
-- James Joyce, “The Dead”
-- James Joyce, “Calypso” from Ulysses
-- Muriel Spark, The Comforters* (Not discussed in class)
Conclusion:
Summary and a look at the future of modernist studies
*Length of segments may vary to accommodate class interest, participation and unforeseen vacations
Required Reading:
Poetry
-- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
-- W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
-- W.B Yeats, “Leda and the Swan”
-- H.D., “Leda”
-- Mina Loy, “On Third Avenue”
-- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Prose
-- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
-- James Joyce, “The Dead”
-- James Joyce, “Calypso”
-- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street"
-- Virginia Woolf, “Reality and the Movies”
-- Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction”
-- Virginia Woolf, “Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown”
-- Muriel Spark, The Comforters
-- Samuel Beckett, Not I
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 50 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 40 %
Other 10 %
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