| Day |
Date |
In-Class
Activities and Handouts |
Homework
Assignments |
| 1 |
W, Jan
10, 2007 |
Intro
to Course; History of London: Bloomsbury,
etc. Course
Handouts; Web Site
 London Maps
Conference Schedule: Back
to Bloomsbury: 14th VW (X)
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- Read through assignments on Modernism,
Spears, Scott, AReed)including a selection of supplemental links and
readings.
- Organize your own schema for defining
Modernism: issues, events, figures -- whatever.
- Decide topic for seminar report
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| 2 |
W, Jan 17, 2007 |
 What is Modernism?
 Link to my Page on Altered
Books
 Link
to Woolf PowerPoint
 Link
to Message Grid
Definition of Postmodernism including characteristics of Modernism
My
Notes on Modernism,Existentialism and Postmodernism for Sophomore Lit
My
Breeze lecture on Modernism and postmodernism in Art and Architecture
- Selections
from Cambridge Companion to Modernism
 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)
- Christopher
Reed, Intro to Bloomsbury Rooms (2004)
For further reference:
- Chronological
Table of Contents from Modernism: Critical Concepts
- Virginia
Nicholson, Appendix to Among the Bohemians (2002)
SUPPLEMENTAL
Modernism
LINKS |
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| 3 |
W, Jan 24, 2007 |
 Early
Modernist Poetics
- CCM,
Chap 2 —Cultural Economy
- EKS,
Abyss Notes on Hulme, Pound, Eliot
- T.E.
Hulme “Romanticism and Classicism” (1911)
- Ezra
Pound “A Retrospect” (1917)
- EKS,
Response #1: Modernism
- EKS, Abyss
Notes for "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
- 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
Eliot's Early Prose LINKS
Chronology
of Eliot's Early Prose
Modernist
Poetics Table
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| 4 |
W, Jan 31, 2007 |
 Eliot,
Early Poetry
- "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)
Eliot's
Early Poetry LINKS
Supplemental
- 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)
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Read:
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| 5 |
W, Feb 7, 2007 |
 Modernist
Art
- 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
SUPPLEMENTAL
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| 6 |
W, Feb 14, 2007 |
 Modernist
Woolf: The Short Stories
Intro to
Virginia Woolf
Woolf , Monday or Tuesday
(1921)
S
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| 7 |
W, Feb 21, 2007 |
 Katherine Mansfiel
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| 8 |
W, Feb 28, 2007 |
The
Mythic Method of Modernism
- 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
SUPPLEMENTAL
- 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)
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| 9 |
W, March 7, 2007
|
Gendering
Modernism
Virginia
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own , including
intro by Susan Gubar and Annotations
EKS, Abyss
Notes on A Room of One's Own
Room LINKS
| John
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory, Intro to Woolf
Supplemental Readings
Bonnie
Kime Scott, "Feminist Relocations of Gender and Modernism:
A Review Essay." NWSA
Journal 15.3 (2003) 165-178 BB
Jane Marcus, “Sapphistry: Narration
as Lesbian Seduction in A Room of One’s Own” In VW
and the Languages
of Patriarchy, (1987) BB
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
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| 10 |
W, March 14, 2007
|
 The
Modernist Novel
Link
to Hogwarts Chart:Modern Novel Chart (Live HTML)
Stable
Table
- CCM, Chap 3 Modernist Novel
- Virgnia Woolf, “Modern
Fiction”
(1919, 1925)(X)
- BGR, Virignia Woolf “Mr.
Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923)
- Forster, Excerpts from Aspects
of the Novel
- LINKS
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SPRING BREAK |
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| 11 |
W, March 28, 2007 |
Forster,
Howard's End (1910)
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W, April
4, 2007 |
Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) |
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| 12 |
W, April 11, 2007
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Modernist
Politics
Chart
on Modernist Politics
Hogwarts
Chart: Chronology of Modernism
- CCM, Chap 6 Politics of
Culture
- BB--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)
Supplemental
- 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
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| 13 |
W, April 18, 2007
|
 Woolf--
To the Lighthouse
SUPPLEMENTAL
READING
- "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
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| 14 |
W, April
25, 2007
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