ENGL 6554

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ENGL 6554
Modernist Fiction and the Erotics of Style

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"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote. How do we take pleasure in a text, even when it appears to betray us? How do we speak of the erotics of style beyond the mere thematic interpretation of sexual representation? Has such an erotics even been written yet? To explore a methodology for contemplating this elusive embrace between the aesthetic and the erotic, we will consider influential works of psychoanalytic, deconstructive, feminist, and queer theory alongside a survey of great modernist novelists whose innovative experiments in prose style have proved most sensual and most challenging, among them Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ronald Firbank, and Djuna Barnes.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6554, LGBT 6445

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16300 ENGL 6554   SEM 101

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