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We will trace the transition from late Victorianism to Modernism by reading central literary texts (such as Wilde's Dorian Gray,Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,the poetry as well as the programmatic texts of of T.E. Hulme, the early poetry of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, poetry of World War II) and tracing key intellectual contexts (e.g., Bergson and the philosophy of time; Einstein, Heisenberg and the origins of "modern" physics; Freud and psychoanalysis; Hofmannsthal, de Saussure and the new philosophy of language).
Students are expected to purchase thefollowing editions and to read Dorian Gray for the first session:
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. New York: Norton, 2006.
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Penguin Classics. Ed. Seamus Deane. London: Penguin, 2003.
Further texts will be supplied in a reader, which will be available in the copyshop in Reckhammerweg from early March onwards. |
