English 126
British Literature, 1900-1945
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring 2021 | Gang, Joshua
|
Lectures TTh 2-3:30 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 1-2; sec. 102: F 2-3) |
Book List
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness; Joyce, James: Ulysses; Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; West, Rebecca: Return of the Soldier; Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
Other Readings and Media
Additional readings will be provided as PDFs through bCourses.
Description
How did British and Irish literature change over the first half of the twentieth century? Was “modernism” a historical moment, an aesthetic movement, or a critical attitude—or some combination of the three? How did writers contend with upheavals such as Irish nationalism, World Wars I and II, suffrage, Windrush, fascism, and the fluctuations of empire? And how did conventional literary forms respond to the advents of film, radio, and television? These are some of the questions this course will try to answer. Evaluation will be based on a combination of papers, exams, and course participation.
Readings will likely include those by Rupert Brooke, Joseph Conrad, TS Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Filippo Marinetti, Wilfred Owen, Sigfried Sassoon, Sam Selvon, Muriel Spark, John Millington Synge, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats.
Back to Semester List
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467
office hours: M-F, 10-12 and 1-4
©UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT