Course Schedule
Class One
Introduction and Class Overview
In-class reading; Syllabus Part 1
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Class Two — Decadence
Syllabus Part 2
Baudelaire, Charles. “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863) link
Blog Post and Blog Responses Sign-Up Sheet link
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Class One – Modern Life
Syllabus Part 3
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler (1891)
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Class Two — Early Drama
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler (1891)
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Class Three — Early Drama
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler (1891)
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Class One — Early Drama
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler (1891)
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Class Two – Modernism and Colonialism
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (1902) Norton 1951
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Class Three – Modernism and Colonialism
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
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Class One – Modernism and Colonialism
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
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Class Two – Modernism and Colonialism
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
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Class Three – Imagisme
Hulme, T.E. Selections from “Romanticism and Classicism” (1924 [1911-12]) Norton 2058
Pound, Ezra and F.S. Flint. “A Few Don’ts By an Imagiste” (1913) Norton 2065
Pound, Ezra. “In the Station of the Metro” (1913) Norton 2069
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). “Oread” (1914) Norton 2069
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). “Sea Rose” (1916) Norton 2070
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Class One – Vorticism and Manifesto
Lewis, Wyndham. Selections from Blast (1914) Norton 2070
Loy, Mina. “Feminist Manifesto” (1914) Norton 2078
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Class Two – The Avant-Garde
Buñuel, Luis. “Un chien andalou” (1929) link
Carrington, Leonora. “The Oval Lady” (1937-38) link
Breton, André and Paul Eluard. Selections from Les Possessions (1930) link
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Class Three – Theories of Poetry
Eliot, T.S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) Norton 2554
Jolas, Eugene. “Revolution of the Word” (1929) link
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Class One – Stein
Stein, Gertrude. Selections from Tender Buttons (1914) link
Stein, Gertrude. “If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso” (1924) link
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Class Two – Irish Modernism * Readings switched with Class Three *
Yeats, W.B. “Leda and the Swan” (1923) Norton 2102
Yeats, W.B. “The Second Coming” (1919) Norton 2099
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Class Three – Irish Modernism
Joyce, James. “Araby” (1914) Norton 2278
Joyce, James. “The Dead” (1914) Norton 2282
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Class One – Annus mirabilis
Eliot, T.S. “The Waste Land” (1922) Norton 2529
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Class Two – Annus mirabilis
Joyce, James. “Wandering Rocks” Episode from Ulysses (1922) link
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Class Three – TBA
Overflow
General Franco Speech link
Richard Spencer Interview link
Kellie Leitch Video link
Due Dates
February 22: Digital Mapping Assignment Due
Class One – Language and Dialect
MacDiarmid, Hugh. “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” (1926) link
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Class Two – Parody
MacDiarmid, Hugh. “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” (1926)
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Class Three – Theories of Fiction
Woolf, Virginia. “Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown” (1924) link
Lawrence, D.H. “Why the Novel Matters” (1936) Norton 2507
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Class One – Virginia Woolf
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
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Class Two – Woolf and Empire
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Tagore, Rabindranath. “In the Eyes of a Peacock” (1939) link
Gandhi, Mahatma. “Satyagraha—Not Passive Resistance” (2 September 1917) link
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Class Three – Woolf, War, and Illness
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Sassoon, Siegfried. “The Effect” (1918) link
Sassoon, Siegfried. “The Glory of Women” (1918) Norton 2025
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Class One – The Modern Girl
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “The Ice Palace” (1920) link
Fitzgerald, Zelda. “The Girl the Prince Liked” (1930) link
St. Vincent Millay, Edna. “What My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why” (1920) link
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Class Two – Middlebrow Moderns
Gibbons, Stella. Selections from Cold Comfort Farm (1932) link
Woolf, Virginia. “On ‘Middlebrow’” (1942) link
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Class Three – TBA
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Overflow and Final Assignment Workshop
Class One – Expat Moderns
Hemingway, Ernest. Selections from A Moveable Feast (1964) link
Rhys, Jean. Selected stories from The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927) link
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Class Two – The Harlem Renaissance
Hughes, Langston. “The Weary Blues” (1926) link
Hughes, Langston. “I, Too” (1926) link
Cullen, Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel” (1925) link
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Class Three – Harlem, Race, Modernism
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat” (1926) link
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Due Date
March 23: Major Assignment Due