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- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-312E.26
- Cím
- Választható angol irodalmi szeminárium - 1922: Modernizmus, narráció és társadalmi nemek
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- The course aims to explore key topics through a range of genres, focusing on novels and short stories, but also non-fiction and poetry as it illustrates how modernists challenged and reworked realist narrative norms in various forms. By the end of this course students will: Be familiar with recent debates in modernist studies that aim to challenge traditional understandings of modernism; Develop an understanding of the role socio-political categories play in the canonization of modernist writers; Be familiar with narrative and gender as categories of analysis in various literary texts; Be able to critically reflect on the role gender plays in the construction, canonization, and reception of modernism.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Often lauded as the annus mirabilis of modernism, the year 1922 witnessed the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, and other landmark works of modernist literature. Marking the centenary of the founding year of modernism, this course aims to familiarize students with some of the key concepts, theories, and debates in the broad interdisciplinary field of (new) modernist studies. Examining key 1922 modernist works this course focuses on both the literary and aesthetic novelties that mark modernist narratives, as well as on the social, political, and cultural conditions that led to their formation.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Students are required to read the assigned texts in advance, attend and actively and regularly participate in class discussions. In addition to this, they will need to submit one short midterm essay, have one presentation, and a final term paper on a topic of their choice (3000 words).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- During this course, we will read the works of well-established twentieth-century writers published in 1922, such as Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Gertrude Stein’s poetry, or Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, but also focus on the works of minor, or neglected modernist figures, such as May Sinclair’s essays or Constantine P. Cavafy’s poems.