ClassInfo - Spring 2017 English Classes

Spring 2017 | ENGL 3171H Section 001: Honors: Modern British Literatures and Cultures -- Modernity and the Metropolitan Novel (67871)

Instructor(s): Lois Cucullu
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Honors
Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, East Bank

Lind Hall 340

Course Catalog Description:: Survey of principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, genres and themes in Britain from 1950 to the present. Typically included are Beckett, Golding, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Murdoch, Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Lessing, Shaffer, Stoppard, Fowles, and Drabble.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL3171H+Spring2017
Class Description:: "Modernity and the Metropolitan Novel: Richardson, Woolf, and Joyce" How is it that the city novels written by this unlikely trio - a reluctant New Woman conscript, a snobbish and often bedridden Londoner, and an arrogant and myopic Dubliner in exile - should provide the fullest artistic expression in English of Baudelaire's romantic pedestrian, the flâneur? And yet, not only did Dorothy Richardson's, Virginia Woolf's, and James Joyce's literary experiments, in order Pilgrimage, Mrs. Dalloway, and Ulysses, effectively translate the flâneur, but they also transformed the structure of the modern novel, its technique, knowledge, and aesthetics. In our pursuit of their urban perambulations, we shall pose questions such as the following. What can their fictive journeys tell us about the novel genre, about aesthetic and psychological modernism, about metropolitan culture and human geography, and about the historical moment of their now acclaimed city saunters? Can novels engender cities, or is this another instance of artistic (or critical) hubris? Why was one at first heralded then overlooked, another disparaged as "tinselly," and the third banned as obscene when in this century they are all touted as exemplary of the modern novel? To answer these questions and put their metropolitan novels in some perspective, we shall read them alongside works by Baudelaire, Simmel, Benjamin, Certeau, Harvey, and Doane, and relevant contemporary criticism. Participants can expect lively discussion, short reflection papers, a mid-term, and a final essay.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67871/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 12 October 2016

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