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1922 was not only the year which saw the publication of Joyce's Ulysses and Eliot's Waste Land, arguably the most influential 20th-century novel and the most important 20th-century poem in English – it was also the year in which Virginia Woolf published Jacob's Room, Rilke completed the Duino Elegies, Scott Moncrieff published the first installment of his English translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Brecht's first play, Trommeln in der Nacht, was first staged – and it was the year in which a fore-runner of the BBC was founded and the first radio programme was aired in Britain. In this seminar, we will read (selections from) these texts in their cultural contexts, attempting to come to an understanding of a key "slice in time" of the Modernist period.
Note: A reader containing most texts to be discussed will be available in the copy-shop Reckhammerweg from early March onwards. Students are expected to read the first text in the reader for the first session. There may be reading tests.
Additionally, students are expected to buy the Penguin edition of James Joyce, Ulysses, ed. by Declan Kiberd.
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