Kursöversikt

Hoppa fram till i dag

EN2102 V21 Modernism in English and American Literature, 7.5 hec

Syllabus

Literature List

Schedule

 

Course coordinator: Marius Hentea (marius.hentea@sprak.gu.se)

Welcome to EN2102! This course on modernism in English and American literature will be, as health guidelines dictate, ONLINE for the entirety of the spring semester. In this course we will read a number of important works on literary modernism and its legacies. 

Zoom links for the seminars will be available on the 'Announcements' page -- but, also, please consult the Canvas page regularly for updates on readings and scheduling.  

Under 'Files', you can find the PowerPoints for each seminar.

Course readings can be found on this page, after the schedule. 

 

Course Assessment

The course consists of four ‘units’, each unit consisting of two seminars. You will be required to write a paper for each unit (700 to 1000 words), commenting in greater depth on one of the texts we have read in class. The papers will be due the Monday after the final seminar for the unit (please upload your papers through the 'Assignments' tab in Canvas). 

 

Course Schedule and Readings

Unit 1. Introducing Modernism

 Seminar 1. Introducing Modernism (MH)                                 21 January, 15:15 - 17:00

Reading:

Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, ‘The New Modernist Studies’, PMLA 123, no. 3 (May 2008): 737-748.

F.T. Marinetti, First Futurism Manifesto.

Tristan Tzara, 1918 Dada Manifesto

Blast Manifesto

 

Seminar 2. Modernist Poetry (MH)                                                     28 January, 15:15 - 17:00

Reading:

T.S. Eliot, ‘Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, The Waste Land’, ‘Four Quartets’ (photocopy)

T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (photocopy)

WB Yeats, ‘Easter, 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’ (photocopy)

Imagism and Vorticism selections (photocopy)

Unit 1 paper due:  1 February 

 

 

Unit 2. British and Irish Modernism (MH)

Seminar 3.  Joyce                                                   4 February, 15:15 - 17:00

Reading: 'Araby' and 'A Painful Case' from Dubliners;  excerpts from Ulysses (see below)

 

Seminar 4. Henry Green                                          11 February, 15:15 - 17:00

Reading: Henry Green, Living

Unit 2 paper due: 15 February

 

Unit 3. American Modernism (ZF) 

https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/9313771558 

Seminar 5.  Hemingway and Modernist American Poetry           25 February, 13:15 - 15:00

Primary Reading: 
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (Scribner, 2003)
Poetry selections from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 6th ed.
William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This Is Just to Say,” “Danse Russe”
Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “Of Modern Poetry”
E. E. Cummings: "Buffalo Bill’s"

Secondary Reading:
Pozorski, A. L. (2004). "Infantry and Infanticide in A Farewell to Arms." Hemingway Review, 23(2), 75-98.
From Simon Critchley, Things Merely Are (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 26-41. [On "The Idea of Order at Key West” and "Of Modern Poetry "]

 

Seminar 6. Steinbeck      4 March, 13:15 - 15:00

Primary Reading: 
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (Penguin, 2006) 

Secondary Reading:
Cruz, F. E. (2007). "'In Between a Past and Future Town:' Home, the Unhomely and the Grapes of Wrath." Steinbeck Review, 4(2), pp. 52-75.

Unit 3 paper due: 8 March 

 

Unit 4. Modernist Legacies

Seminar 7.     South Africa     (MO)                                   19 March, 13:15 - 15:00

Join Zoom Meeting
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66819803353?pwd=OU9LNEE1UHo3OExGNjR5cjBHUms5dz09

Meeting ID: 668 1980 3353
Passcode: 497812 

Reading:

Eugène Marais, The Soul of the Ape & My Friends the Baboons (2018) chapters 5 &11

Excerpts from Sol Plaatje, Native Land in South Africa (photocopy)

Excerpts from Olive Schreiner, The Story of An African Farm (photocopy)

Secondary reading:

Klopper, Dirk. "Boer, Bushman, and Baboon: Human and Animal in Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century South African Writings." Safundi (Nashville, Tenn.) 11.1-2 (2010): 3-18.

Carrie Rohman, Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal. (Columbia UP 2009), pp. 29-40. (photocopy)

 

Seminar 8.      Caribbean Modernism (MO)                                           25 March, 13:15 - 15:00 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/67086066877?pwd=ckRva1JTNkwvaWFQZFNTTzdweUpmdz09

Meeting ID: 670 8606 6877
Passcode: 750247 

Jean Rhys, ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’, ‘The Day They Burned the Books.’ The Collected Short Stories. (Penguin Classics, 2017)

Gikandi, Simon. ‘Introduction’ Writing in Limbo. Cornell UP, 2018. (Open access)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Limbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEfhim_36U

 

Unit 4 paper due: 29 March

 

COURSE DOCUMENTS

Seminar 1:

Mao and Walkowitz, 'The New Modernist Studies'

Avant-garde manifestos: Futurist Manifesto ; Dada 1918 

Seminar 2:

Eliot Poetry

Eliot, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' -- from the original publication in Egoist (Sept 1919 and December 1919): First part (Sept 1919); Second Part (December 1919)

Yeats / Imagism / Blast

 

Seminar 3:

'Araby', at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dubliners/Araby

'A Painful Case', at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dubliners/A_Painful_Case

Excerpts from Ulysses: 'Telemachus', at http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html; 'Penelope', at http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/penelope.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kurssammanfattning:

Kurssammanfattning
Datum Information Sista inlämningsdatum