1.  W, Aug 20: 

• Read through assignments on Modernism, including a selection of supplemental links and readings.  
• Write one page blog introducing yourself to the class (see Blog handout)
• about Modernism -- what is your definition of Modernism, dates, themes, issues, practicioners etc.

2. M, Aug 29: What is Modernism?

• Selection from Cambridge Companion to Modernism   Intro, 1-8 
• Bonnie Kime Scott, Intro to Gender of Modernism (1990) 
• Christopher Reed, Intro to Bloomsbury Rooms (2004)  
• Chart of Student Definitions 2007
•  My Web page on Modernism for 209
• My Breeze Presentation comparing and Contrasting Modernism and Post-Modernism in Art and Architecture
• MoMA examples of Modern Art
• Modernism LINKS
  Definition of Postmodernism including characteristics of Modernism

•   Christopher Reed, Intro to Bloomsbury Rooms  (2004) 
• Monroe K. Spears, “The Modern and the Past,” Chap 1 of Dionysus and the City (1970) 
  
• Introduction to Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Tim Middleton. (2003) 

• Chronological Table of Contents from Modernism: Critical Concepts 

• TIME MAG-- Eliot as one of Top 100 Artists of the Century by Helen Vendler
• Intro Bio by Ronald Bush
• Short intro at Academy of American Poets
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Intro to Eliot from Johns Hopkins Guide to Lit Theory
• Wikipedia on Eliot

• How is this poem representative of early Modernsim?
• What is this poem about?
• Can I make an outline of this poem?  Divide it into sections? Make a plot summary?
• What do I understand about it?  And what parts are just a mystery to me?

3. W, Aug 31:

THE ISOLATE SELF: Philosophical Premises

Eliot, Early Poetry I:
PRIMARY READING

•  "Portrait of a Lady" (completed Nov. 1911)

•  “Preludes" (I, II Oct. 1910; III July 1911; IV Nov 1911)

• Chapter on Woolf and Eliot from Hermione Lee's Bio of Woolf (R)  

• Notes on "Portrait"  by Patricia Sloane
• Notes on "Portrait"by von Arum
• Eliot Reading "La Filia"

Early Eliot Poetry I: Prufrock
 PowerPoint on ELiot's Early Life & Poetry
PRIMARY READING:

• EKS, Reading and Discussion Questions on Prufrock 
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (July 1911)  Text with Annotations
• Eliot Reading "Prufrock" 
• “Prufrock’s Pervigilium” from Inventions of the March Hare (1912?) 

• 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) or
• Torrens, James,  "Eliot's Essays: A Bridge to the Poems."  In Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988): 46-51. (X & R)  

Eliot's Early Poetry LINKS

4. M, Sep 5: Early Eliot Poetry :  Prufrock

• "La Filia Che Piagne" (Nov. 1911)
•  "Portrait of a Lady" (completed Nov. 1911)

•  “Preludes" (I, II Oct. 1910; III July 1911; IV Nov 1911)

• Chapter on Woolf and Eliot from Hermione Lee's Bio of Woolf (R)  

• Notes on "Portrait"  by Patricia Sloane
• Notes on "Portrait"by von Arum
• Eliot Reading "La Filia"
  

•  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)  

5. W: Sep 7: Early Woolf: Modernist Short Stories

• “Modern Fiction”
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923) 
• "The Mark on the Wall" 

• Hussey on essays, "Mark," and Monday or Tuseday

6. M, Sep 12: Early Woolf: Modernist Short Stories

• • "Kew Gardens"  (1919)
  • “Solid Objects”
  • An Unwritten Novel
• Woolf's Stories LINKS | PowerPoint | Suzanne Bellamy's paintings on the Stories

THE SELF IN HISTORY: Canon Building

7. W, Sep 14: Eliot: Early Critical Prose from Sacred Wood (1920)

Introduction by Frank Kermode

8. M. Sep 19: Early Critical Prose from Sacred Wood (1920)

·         "Hamlet and His Problems"

·         "The Metaphysical Poets"

·         "The Function of Criticism"

·         excerpt from"Philip Massinger"

·         “Ulysses, Order, and Myth”

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) 

9. W, Sep 21: Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

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

10. M, Sep 26: Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SELF: Elegies to War

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  

12. M, Oct 3: Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)

• • 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 T
  • raversed,"  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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• Read materials on Research Project; begin thinking about your topic choice.

• Start reading Mrs. Dalloway.  Read Intro; then start making an outline (Gliederung)  section by section.

13. W, Oct 5: Woolf, 

• Research Project Page
• How to Build Your Biblio
• List of Topics for this class

• Read first half of Mrs. Dalloway

14. M, Oct 10: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

Reading Mrs. Dalloway

• PowerPoint on Mrs. Dalloway
• My Map of Walks in Mrs. Dalloway
• Mrs. Dalloway Links
• List of themes in MD
• Comparison/Contrast btw Woolf & Eliot (Dalloway and Waste Land)
• My Mrs. Dalloway Paper

• Finish reading Mrs. Dalloway
• Read: Steinberg, Erwin R. "Mrs. Dalloway and T. S. Eliot's Personal Wasteland.  "Journal of Modern       Literature 10.1 (March 1983): 3-25.

15. W, Oct 12: 

• Caramagno, Thomas, "'The sane & the insane, side by side': The Object- Rela­tions of Self-Management in Mrs. Dalloway, Chapter 9 of The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness (1992): pp. 210-243 .  Cheri? 

• *Rosenman, Ellen. Chapter 4 of The Invisible Presence (1986), 75-92. 
• *Zwerdling, Alex. "Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System." Chapter 5 of Virginia Woolf and the Real World (1986): 120-143. Also rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp.145-64.
•  Moore, Madeline.Chapter 3 of The Short Season Between Two Silences: THe Mysti­cal and the Polit­ical in the Novels of Virginia Woolf (1984): 59-92. 
• Able,Elizabeth, "Narrative Structure(s) and Female Development" (1983) rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 103-26. (R)
• J. Hillis Miller. "Mrs. Dalloway: Repetition as the Raising of the Dead."From Fiction and Repetition (1982).Rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpreta­tions: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 79-101. (R
• Mclarin, Allen, "The Symbolic Keyboard: Mrs. Dalloway."From VW: The Echoes Enslaved (1973).Rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpreta­tions: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 5-14. (R)  JESS? (color)

M, Oct  17  FALL BREAK

16. W, Oct 19:

• The Hollow Men” (1925)
• "Journey of the Magi” (1927)
• “Marina” (1930)
• “Ash Wednesday” (1930)

• Moody, A.D. “Love Through the Looking Glass.” Chaper 6 of Thomas Sterns Eliot” Poet. 1979, pp. 132-59  (on “Ash Wednesday”)

COMING TO TERMS: Conversions and Syntheses

17. M, Oct 24: X

• Excerpt from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) Kermode 79-96
• "Religion and Literature" (1935), Kermode 97-106
• "The Music of Poetry," (1942), Kermode 107-114
• "What is a Classic?"  (1944), Kermode 115-131.

18. W, Oct 26:  Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

Woolf-- To the Lighthouse

• 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 

•  Winston, Janet.  “Something Out of Harmony: To the Lighthouse and the Subject(s) of Empire.” Woolf Studies Annual 2 (1996): 39-70. 

19. M, Oct 31:  Woolf, : To the Lighthouse (1927)

•  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 

CARRER CULMINATIONS

20. W, Nov 2:  

• The Four Quartets: “Burnt Norton” 
•  EKS, Four Quartets: Gliederung
• EKS, Four Quartets: Versions of the StructureE
• KS, Freewrite on The Four Quartets
•  EKS, Response #12 The Four Quartets
• Harold Brooks, "Four Quartets: The Structure in Relation to the Themes"

21. M, Nov 7: 

• East Coker and Dry Salvages

22. W, Nov 9:  

• Little Gidding

23. M, Nov 14:  

• EKS, Structural Outline of the Waves
• Character Diagram from…
• EKS, Giant Wave Table

24. W, Nov 16: : 

•  Doris  Eder, “Louis Unmasked: T.S. Eliot in The Waves.” Virignia Woolf Quarterly 2.1-2 (Winter & Spring 1975): 13-27.

Woolf -- The Waves Cont..

• MLA style--Sample Works Cited Page
  

Class Research Presentations

(5-7 minutes: main idea, title, examples, helpful critics, most interesting thing you've learned + 5 minutes answering questions)

• Annie Danovich
• Cheri Green
• Holly Hardin
• Lindsay Murphy
• Jess Whittaker
  

Class Research Presentations..

• Jaquinna Bland
• Allyson Cothran
• Jenna Hamilton
• Margaret Kenneman
• Kristin Lavender
• Brittany Triplett

• Eliot, "Yeats" in Kermode
• Eliot "Three Voices of Poetry" in Kermode
• Eliot, "To Critcize the Critic" (1961?)
• Woolf "Professions for Women" (1931)
• Woolf, Excerpt from "Sketch of the Past"(1939)
• Woolf "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid" (1941)

• Essay Questions for Final
• Eliot/Woolf Links
• Chronology of Major Works of Woolf and Eliot
• Tom and Virginia:  A Personal Chronology