T.S. Eliot and Virignia Woolf: A Graduate Seminar
Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks - Fall 2002

• Intro to Eliot and Woolf: PowerPoint

 
• Short Syllabus for 2002
• Detailed Syllabus for 2002
•   Game Plan for Days 7, 8, and 9 (MD, TTL, AW and FR)

 
• Course Requirements for 2002
• Policy Statement for 2002

 
• Books to Buy for the Course (2002)
• Books on Reserve for 2002

 
• Report Schedule for 2002
• Report Topics on Woolf  Criticism for 2002
• Reports Topics on Eliot Criticism for 2002

• Videos and Tapes Available

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• Detailed Syllabus for 2000 version
• Woolf Reports for 2000
• Eliot Reports for 2000
• Syllabus for 1995 Version of the Course

Changes to Woolf/Eliot Seminar for 2002

Other than updating the reading to include new research done in the last five years, I anticipate two majors changes to the seminar:

1) The seminar is now webbed-- most of the handouts, bibliographies, and chronologies are now or will be posted to the class web site. In addition, student projects such as annotations for particular critical essays will also be added to these resources.

Technophobic students should not worry, however; students will not be required or expected to do anything more complicated than using e-mail on a list serv and cruising the Internet to do some research.

2) I also anticipate shifting the readings around a little bit. To the Lighthouse compares well thematically with certain aspects of the Four Quartets -- the concern with time and evanesce, the role of art etc, but since Woolf's work was produced in 1926, fifteen years before Eliot published the first of the Four Quartets, they do not correspond chronologically. I had great luck last time pairing Four Quartets instead with The Waves.  Last time we compared To the Lighthouse with a selection of Eliot's mid-career religious poems, including "Journey of the Magi," "Song for Simeon," and "Ash Wednesday."  But this year I am thinking of pairing it with one of Eliot's plays perhaps The Family Reunion which like To the Lighthouse deals with issues of family repression.  I ws also thinking of ending the course with a pairing of Woolf's last novel, Between the Acts (1941) with Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and some late essays.

Another possible Ending of the course is the paring of the two late polemical works, After Strange Gods and Three Guineas. However, since these works come late in the course, we will have time to make the actual decision of which works to cover once the seminar has convened.

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