This literary studies seminar traces the development of modernist fiction from its beginning at the end of the nineteenth century to full maturity in the 1920s and 1930s. Although our main interest will be modernism's trajectory on the British Isles, this literary movement cannot be fully understood when considered in isolation. A cosmopolitan exchange of ideas was, after all, one of its defining features. The seminar sets out to understand the period's central themes, literary concepts and narrative techniques against its historical, social and philosophical background. To complement our analyses of novels and short stories, we will glance at other genres and fields of artistic production like painting and music.
Editions used in the seminar:
James Joyce, Dubliners (1914): Oxford World's Classics
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927): Oxford World's Classics
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929): Arrow Classic
Henry Roth, Call it Sleep (1934): Penguin Group
These texts will be available at the Heine Bookshop (on Campus).
A detailed seminar programme will be provided on DuePublico. |
