ENGL 6530

The Modern Imagination

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

I imagine this as an indispensable course for those studying late nineteenth, twentieth and contemporary century literature as well as for MFAs. We shall read major works by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Lawrence, Yeats, and T.S.Eliot as well as works by Proust, Kafka, and Mann. The emphasis will be on close reading of individual texts, but we shall place the authors and works within the context of literary, political, cultural, and intellectual history. The course will seek to define the development of literary modernism and relate literary modernism to other intellectual developments. We shall be especially interested in the relationship between modern literature and modern painting and sculpture. Within the course material, students will be able to select the topics on which they write essays.

When Offered Fall.

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