Short Syllabus for Engl 814 -- 
T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

T, Aug 27: Day 1-- Discussion of research interests and goals; presentation of chronologies and bibliographies for two artists.

THE ISOLATE SELF: Philosophical Premises
T, Sept 3: Day 2-- Early Eliot Poetry
T, Sept 10: Day 3-- Early Woolf: Modernist Short Stories

THE SELF IN HISTORY: Canon Building
T, Sept 17: Day 4-- Eliot -- Early Critical Prose from Sacred Wood (1920)
T, Sept 24: Day 5-- Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SELF: Elegies to War
T, Oct 1: Day 6--. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
T, Oct 8: Day 7--. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

COMING TO TERMS: Conversions and Syntheses
T, Oct 15: Day 8 -- --.Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
T, Oct 22: Day 9: Eliot, Poetry and Prose of Conversion (Ash Wednesday (1930), Ariel Poems;; and/or, Murder in the Cathedral and/ or The Family Reunion (1939)

CARRER CULMINATIONS
T, Oct 29: Day 10 Woolf -- The Waves (1931)

Fall Break   Fall Break   Fall Break    Fall Break

T, Nov 11-- Woolf -- The Waves Cont..
T, Nov 19: Day 12-- Eliot, The Four Quartets (1942)
T, Nov 26: Day 13-- .Eliot, The Four Quartets Cont.
T, Dec 3: Day 14 --   Woolf,  Between the Acts (1942); Eliot, Late Essays


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