ENGL266

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ENGL266

Logics of Art and Identity in Modern British Literature ENGL266 FA

Next Offered in 9899 FA

This course examines influential texts -- primarily British, from the late 19th century to World War II -- and is guided by a central question: how were ideas about the nature and social function of art bound up with emergent reconceptualizations of racial, national, ethnic, and sexual identity? We will ask how modernist "cultural identity" articulates (more generally modern) ideas about individuation and affiliation through values of racial purity, cultural inheritance, and political (class, citizenship) status.

MAJOR READINGS

Joseph Conrad: LORD JIM
E.M. Forster: PASSAGE TO INDIA
D.H. Lawrence: ST. MAWR
George Orwell: DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON
Jean Rhys: VOYAGE IN THE DARK
Olive Schreiner: THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM
H.G. Wells: THE TIME MACHINE
Oscar Wilde: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Virginia Woolf: MRS. DALLOWAY
Shorter readings by Auden, Beckett, Benjamin, Cauldwell,
DuBois, Durkheim, Freud, Eliot, Fry, Joyce, Kavanagh,
Malinowski, Mansfield, Mew, Nietzsche, Pater, Spender,
Weber, and Yeats.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Six short papers and a final exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course meets the English department's historical knowledge requirement. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-03-1998

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