• Read through whole schedule of 2004 Woolf Conference, looking for trends, hot topics, critical approaches etc. Make a list of prominent themese and approaches.  
• Read through assignments on Modernism, including a selection of supplemental links and readings.  
• Organize your own schema for defining Modernism: issues, events, figures -- whatever. 
• Decide topic for seminar report 

• Selections from Cambridge Companion to Modernism  
• Intro, 1-8 
• Chap 1, Metaphysics, 9-32  
• Back to Bloomsbury: Conference Schedule (2004)  
• Monroe K. Spears, “The Modern and the Past,” Chap 1 of Dionysus and the City (1970) 
• Bonnie Kime Scott, Intro to Gender of Modernism (1990) 
• Introduction to Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Tim Middleton. (2003) 
• Christopher Reed, Intro to Bloomsbury Rooms  (2004) 

• Chronological Table of Contents from Modernism: Critical Concepts 
• Virginia Nicholson, Appendix to Among the Bohemians (2002) 

• CCM, Chap 4—Modern Poetry  
• EKS, Abyss Notes on Hulme, Pound, Eliot 
• T.E. Hulme  “Romanticism and Classicism” (1911) (X)  
• Ezra Pound “A Retrospect” (1917) (X)  
• EKS, Response #1: Modernism 
• EKS, Abyss Notes for "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (X ) 
• EKS, Response for Day 4: Early Essays (X) 
• T.S. Eliot (Selections from early crit in Kermode and early poetry) 
•  Introduction by Frank Kermode 
• "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) Text for annotating 
• "Hamlet and His Problems" 
• "The Perfect Critic" 
• "The Metaphysical Poets" 
• "The Function of Criticism" 
• excerpt from"Philip Massinger" 
• Materer, Timothy.  "T.S. Eliot's Critical Program."  In The Cambridge Companion to T.S. ELIOT, ed. A. David Moody (1994): 48-59.(R& X) 

Eliot's Early Prose LINKS 

Chronology of Eliot's Early Prose 

Modernist Poetics Table 

• "La Filia Che Piagne" (Nov. 1911)  
• "Portrait of a Lady" (completed Nov. 1911)  
• Preludes" (I, II Oct. 1910; III July 1911; IV Nov 1911)  
• EKS,Reading and Discussion Questions on Prufrock (X & W) 
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (July 1911)  
• “Prufrock’s Pervigilium” from Inventions of the March Hare (1912?) (X) 
• Scofield, Martin... 
• Torrens, James,  "Eliot's Essays: A Bridge to the Poems."  In Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988): 46-51. (X& R)  
• Chapter on Woolf and ELiot from Hermione Lee's Bio of Woolf (R) 

• Mays, J.C.C. "Early Poems: from 'Prufrock' to 'Gerontion'."  108-20. in The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A. David Moody. (1994) (R) 
•  Gordon, Lyndall, Chapters 1-4 of Eliot's Early Years (1977) pp.1-85. (R) 
• Schuchard, Ronald,  appropriate chapter Eliot’s Dark Angel (1999) 
• Riquelme, John Paul. Section on "Rhapsody on a Winter's Night" in Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991), pp.44-61.  
• Ellman, Maud. "The Spider and the Weevil: Self and Writing in Eliot's Early Poetry," Chapter 2 of The Poetics of Impersonality (1987): 62-90.  
• Menand, Louis, "Literary Honesty," Chapter One of Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context (1987): pp.13-28.  
• Pinkey, Tony, "Wrestling with the Devil of the Stairs: Early Poems to Prufrock," Chapter 2 of Women in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot: A Psychoanalytic Approach. London: Macmillan, 1984: pp. 18-56. Not in CUL: EKS has book  
• Jay, Gregory, Chapter 7 of T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History (1983), pp. 92-113. Not in CUL; EKS has book 
• Smith, Grover. Chapter 1-2+ of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1950): 1-33. (R)  

• CCM, Chap 8 Visual Arts  
•  “Romantic to Classic: Post-Impressionist Theories from 1910-1912 and “The new Prismatics: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and English Post-Impressionism" Chaps 10 and 11 of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf  by Jane Goldman (1998) pp. 124-150.2  
• BGR, Roger Fry, “Impressionism” (1932)  
• BGR, Desmond McCarthy, “The Post-Impressionists” (1911)  
• BGR, Clive Bell, “The Artistic Problem” (1919)  
• Clive Bell,  excerpt on “significant form” from Art ("SF" starts in par. 3) . 
• BGR, Roger Fry, “Retrospect” from Vision and Design (1920)  
• BGR, Lytton Strachey, “Art and Indecency” (1921) 
• Modernist Art LINKS 

• Essay explaining Sig Form in terms of Kant 

• Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield: Chronology
• Comparing the Short Stories

• Woolf , Monday or Tuesday (1921)
• i. "The Mark on the Wall"  (w. 1917)
• ii. "Kew Gardens"  (1919)
• iii. "An Unwritten Novel"  (1920)
• iv. "A Haunted House" 
• v. "Monday or Tuesday" 
• vi. "Blue and Green" 
• Woolf's Stories LINKS | PowerPoint | Suzanne Bellamy's paintings on the Stories
• Katherine Mansfield  Stories  
•  Prelude (1918)
• Bliss (1918)
• The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1921)
• At the Bay (1922)
• The Garden Party (1922)
• Mansfield Links
• Chapter on Woolf and Mansfield from Lee's Biography of Woolf (R) 

• Patricia Moran. "Skeletons at the Liberal Feast," Intro to Word of Mouth: Body Lanugage in KM and VW (1996) (X) 

London Salons, Magazines, and Publishing  

• CCM. Chap 2 Cultural Economy 
• Lytton Strachey 
• Selections in BGR
• Hussey on Strachey (X)
• Ottoine Morrell 
• Excerpt from Vanessa Curtis 
• Edith Sitwell 

• Eliot-- The Waste Land  
• "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" from Kermode, ed. Selected Prose  
• EKS, Reading and Discussion Questions on The Waste Land (X) 
• EKS, Day 7: Response on The Waste Land (X) 
• Steinberg, Erwin R.  "Mrs. Dalloway and T.S. Eliot's Personal Wasteland."  Journal of Modern  Literature 10.1 (March 1983): 3-25.(X)
• Cleanth Brooks,  "The Waste Land: Critique of the Myth"  (1939)

 
• The Waste Land: Chronology, Structure, Notes, LINKS 
• My Gliederung of The Waste Land  
• Unifying Concepts in The Waste Land  
• Drafts of the Waste Land  
• The Composition of the Waste Land -- Excerpts from Various Critics  

• Davidson, Harriet.  "Improper Desire: Reading The Waste Land." In The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A. David Moody (1994): 121-131. (R)
• Cuddy, Lois A. and David H. Hirsch.  Introduction to Critical Essays on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991, pp. 1-24. Not in CUL; EKS has xerox.
• Mayer, John T.  Chapters 10-11 of T.S. Eliot's Silent Voices (1989): 241-91.
• Ellmann, Maud, "The Waste Land: A Sphinx without a Secret" Chapter 3 of The Poetics of Impersonality (1987): pp.91-113.
• Jay, Greg S. "'Tolling Reminiscent Bells': Love and Death in The Waste Land.  Chaps 9, 10 and 11 of T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History (1983): 137-96. Not in CUL; get book from EKS
• Gordon, Lyndall.  "The Waste Land Traversed,"  Chapter 5 of Eliot's Early Years (1977): pp. 86-119. (R)
• James Miller, T.S. Eliot's Personal Wasteland (1977)
• Smith, Grover. "Memory and Desire: 'The Waste Land'," Chapter 6 of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1974): pp. 72-98 and Appendix: The Making of "The Waste Land" pp. 300-314. (R) 
• "The Waste Land," in Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet (1959): 145-82.(R)

 

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 

EKS, Abyss Notes on A Room of One's Own 

Jane Marcus, “Sapphistry: Narration as Lesbian Seduction in A Room of One’s Own” In VW and the Languages of Patriarchy, (1987)

Room LINKS | John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory, Intro to Woolf

Hussey, Mark.  Section on ROO in Virginia Woolf: A to Z (1995) 

Rosenman, Ellen.  "Critical Reception."  Chapter 3 of A Room of One's Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity [Twayne's Masterwork Series]. (1995): 14-21. R 

• CCM, Chap 3 Modernist Novel 
• Virgnia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919, 1925)(X) 
• BGR, Virignia Woolf  “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923)
• BGR, Virginia Woolf,  “Ernest Hemingway” (1927) 
• Forster, Excerpts from Aspects of the Novel 
• LINKS
• Johns Hopkins Guide on Modernist Theories of the Novel
• Johns Hopkins Guide on BLoomsbury
• Aspects of E.M. Forster
• The Knitting Circle: Forster
• glbtq - a very frank account of Forster's sexuality:

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• To the Lighthouse 
• Lighthouse LINKS 
• Excerpts from Jane Goldman’s Critical Guide to TTL (1998)
• Hogwarts Chart | Table of Issues

• "Shifts in 'Prelude' and To the Lighthouse" by Angela Smith (1992) (xerox outside office 613)
• My bibliography of Criticism on TTL (special recommendations:)
• Winston, Janet.  “Something Out of Harmony: To the Lighthouse and the Subject(s) of Empire.” Woolf Studies Annual 2 (1996): 39-70. 

 
• Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. "What Is the Meaning of the Play? Virginia Woolf and the History of the Future." Chapter 1 of Letters from the Front, Vol III of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (1994); esp. 28-39 on TTL. 

 
• Barr, Tina. "Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey Towards Eleusis in To the Lighthouse." Boundary 2 20.1 (1993): 125-46. (Jungian, archetypal)AP2 .B8 

 
• Lillienfield, Jane. "The Deceptiveness of Beauty: Mother Love and Mother Hate in To the Lighthouse." Twentieth-Century Literature 23 (19770, 345-76.  PN2 .T97 

 

• CCM, Chap 6 Politics of Culture 
• Hussey, VW: A-Z on Leonard (R & on bulletin Board outside office)
• BGR, Leonard Woolf, “Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo” (1925)  
• BGR, E.M. Forster, “What I Believe” (1939?)  
• Woolf "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid" (1940)

• Eliot – Excerpt from After Strange Gods   
• BGR, Bell on Maynard Keynes
• BGR, Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” (1930)  
• BGR, Woolf on Working Women's Guild

Class on PoCo is at 2:30-3:45 Monday, Nov 22 in Dan 405.  The class is reading "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern" by Homi Bhabha, a copy of which I will put on my office door.

• Forster, Passage to India  
• Hussey on Forster 
• Select an essay from those listed below (Quentin Bailey essay is available on my office bulletin board)

• "Heroes and homosexuals: education and empire in E. M. Forster. " Quentin Bailey.  Twentieth Century Literature, Fall 2002 v48 i3 p324(25) . 
• "An Aristotelian Reading of the Feminine Voice-as-Revolution in E. M. Forster's A Passage To India." ELIZABETH MACLEOD WALLS. Papers on Language & Literature, 35.1 (Wntr 1999) :56(11) 
• "Apropos of nothing: chance and narrative in Forster's 'A Passage to India.'"  Leland Monk. Studies in the Novel, 26.4 (Winter 1994): 392(12) 
• "Queer Forster. " (book review) Elizabeth Langland. Modern Philology, August 2000 v98 i1 p126