European Modernism
- Course Number: ENGL 185
- Prerequisites:
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- Catalog Course Entry: ENGL 185
- Quarter: Winter 2018
What, when and where was Modernism? This course introduces students, whatever their background, to the historical evolution and the variations of the idea of Modernism provided by the European tradition.
Week 1: Modernity, the Modern and Modernism
Week 2: Hermeneutics of Suspicion I
The Modernist Spirit of Nietzsche
W B Yeats, The Collected Poems of W B Yeats
Week 3: Hermeneutics of Suspicion II
The Modernist Spirit of Marx
T S Eliot, The Waste Land
Week 4: Hermeneutics of Suspicion III
The Modernist Spirit of Freud
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Week 5: Literature Review
Week 6: The Language of Modernism
Saussure and the Linguistic Turn
T S Eliot, Four Quartets
Week 7: The Gender of Modernism
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One’s Own
Week 8: The World of Modernism
Martin Heidegger and Being in the World
Samuel Beckett, Happy days
Week 9: Modernist History and Myth
James Joyce, Ulysses
Week 10: The Politics and the Aesthetics of Modernism
Excerpts from various literary and theoretical works
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Evaluation and Examination
Attendance: 5%
Class Participation: 10%
Mid-term Literature Review: 35%
Final paper: 50%