E.K. Sparks
Fall 2005 
M/W 2:30-3:45
Daniel 405/409 

Outline Syllabus for Engl 496:   

T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

See Long Syllabus for details of readings and assignments

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1. W, Aug 24: Course Intro
2. M, Aug 29: What is Modernism?
THE ISOLATE SELF: Philosophical Premises
3. W, Aug 31: Early Eliot Poetry -- Preludes, Portrait, Filia Che Piagne 

4. M, Sep 5: Early Eliot Poetry :--  Prufrock
5. W: Sep 7: Early Woolf: Modernist Short Stories: Mod Fiction,  Mark on Wall

6. M, Sep 12: Early Woolf: Modernist Short Stories” Kew & Unwritten Novel
THE SELF IN HISTORY: Canon Building
7. W, Sep 14: Eliot: Early Critical Prose from Sacred Wood (1920)  Tradition & IT

8. M. Sep 19: Early Critical Prose from Sacred Wood (1920)
9. W, Sep 21: Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

10. M, Sep 26: Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SELF: Elegies to War
11. W, Sep 28:  Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)

12. M, Oct 3: Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
13. W, Oct 5: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

14. M, Oct 10: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
15. W, Oct 12:  Writing Research Papers

fM, Oct  17  FALL BREAK f
16. W, Oct 19: Eliot, Poetry and Prose of Conversion  Ash Wednesday; Ariel Poems
COMING TO TERMS: Conversions and Syntheses

17. M, Oct 24:  Eliot, Family Reunion?  Essays?
18. W, Oct 26:  Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

19. M, Oct 31:  Woolf, : To the Lighthouse (1927)
CARRER CULMINATIONS
20. W, Nov 2:  Eliot, The Four Quartets  Burnt Norton

21. M, Nov 7: Eliot, The Four Quartets Cont. East Coker
22. W, Nov 9:  Eliot, The Four Quartets Cont. Dry Salvages Little Gidding

23. M, Nov 14:  Woolf -- The Waves
24. W, Nov 16: :  The Waves Cont..

25. M, Nov 21:  Woolf -- The Waves Cont..
THANKSGIVING BREAK

26. M, Nov 28: : Class Research Presentations..
27. W, Nov. 30: : Class Research Presentations

28. M, Dec 5: Class Wrap- Up; Discussion of Final
29. W, Dec 7: Class Wrap- Up; Discussion of Final