English 45C

Other Readings and Media

Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry; Wilde, O.: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings; James, H.: The Portrait of a Lady; Joyce, J.: Dubliners; Woolf, V.: To the Lighthouse; Faulkner, W.: The Sound and the Fury; Achebe, C.: Things Fall Apart; Welty, E.: Golden Apples

Description

This course will provide a survey of major works and stylistic experiments that have come to characterize modernism in Anglo-American literature. We will try to understand the pressures to which the writers were responding and we will explore how their experiments can be said to make a difference in cultural life. Lectures will be devoted primarily to close reading, although there will be considerable concern for trends within the intellectual ferment of the period. There will be a mid-term and final as well as three five-page papers. The pace of this class will be intense and the discourse somewhat demanding.