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ADVANCED SEMINAR IN MODERNISM - LIT461/LIT661 Spring 2022
Course
Einat Adar
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Lessons
Here is the course outline:
1. Introduction
Feb 10
Modernity & Modernism, modernism as style and historical response, the emergence of modern technologies |
2. Early Cinema
Mar 3
Expressionism and impressionism in cinema, the manipulation of time in space |
3. Impressionism, naturalism, modernism
Feb 17
Representation between naturalism and modernism |
4. Stream of Consciousness
Feb 24
Philosophies of subjective experience of time and the self |
5. James Joyce’s Ulysses
Mar 31
Ulysses as the epitome of high modernism in fiction |
6. Modernism and the great war
Mar 10
Literary responses to WWI |
7. Aftermath of the Great War: Modernism’s Annus Mirabilis: 1922
Mar 17
High modernism, formal experimentation |
8. Sci-Fi
Mar 24
The emergence of speculative fiction as ‘low modernism’ |
9. Virginia Woolf
Apr 21
Gender and queer theory |
10. Harlem RenaissanceReclaiming voices |
11. World War IILiterary response to the recurrence of violence |
12. Samuel Beckett I
May 5
Writing after Auschwitz |
13. Samuel Beckett II
May 18
The Limits of Modernism |
14. ConclusionThe challenge for art in the 20th century |
15. Minor literature
Apr 28
Writing from a position of inferiority |
16. James Joyce’s Ulysses II
Apr 14
Ulysses as the epitome of high modernism in fiction |