Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-219E/F06
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts 2.: Joyce and Co.: fiction modernised
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- These seminars are designed to provide the students with an overview of how Modernist aspirations in prose writing took shape in the social, cultural and literary contexts of the first three decades of the twentieth century, through studying selected novels, short stories and essays written in English on the British Isles, as well as relying on some carefully selected specimens of secondary written and visual sources. A supplementary objective of the course is to further develop the students’ intelligent and appreciative reading habits as well as their subject-relevant language competences in English.
- Course content
- A selection, assigned by the instructor, of significant prose works by the major British and Irish writers of the period in question.
- Assessment method
- Written exam in the examination period or a mark recommended on the basis of the individual students’ course work as specified in advance (presentations, written home and in-class-assignments, in-class tests, etc.)
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: Two or three novels, four to five short stories and one or two essays by E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley as specified by the instructor relying on student input in the first class. Recommended (Appropriate chapters from the works listed below.) Attridge, Derek. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. New York: Harcourt-Brace, 1959. Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Aldous Huxley. New York: Chelsea House, 2003. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1993. Bradshaw, David. The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Garsington Revisited. Bloomington: IUP, 2017. da Sousa Correa, Delia, Gerri Kimber and Susan Reid, eds. Katherine Mansfield and Modernism. Edinburgh: EUP, 2010. Fernihough, Anne. The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge New York: CUP, 1999. Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction. An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1998.