Fall 2018  |  ENGL 5170 Section 001: Readings in 20th-Century Literature and Culture -- Modernism and the Metropolitan Novel (33512)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 216
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
British, Irish, or American literatures, or topics involving literatures of two nations. Focuses either on a few important writers from a particular literary school or on a genre (e.g., drama). Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL5170+Fall2018 Modernism and the Metropolitan Novel: London, Dublin, Berlin" investigates the role of the metropolitan novel in shaping modernism and, more broadly, modern culture. In tandem, it considers the effects modernity has wrought on novels of the city. Among the questions we shall pursue are these. How is it that the city novels of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Christopher Isherwood succeed in transforming the English novel of the city from lowbrow popular literature to experimental art form? What's more, how do they manage to fuse the domestic scene, the classic terrain of the novel genre (think Samuel Richardson's novels forward), with Charles Baudelaire's romantic pedestrian, the flaneur? What effects does this paradigm shift exact, moreover, on the classic realist novel and on culture at large? Can such fictive journeys engender cities, or is this another instance of artistic (or critical) hubris? In traversing Richardson's fin de siècle London to Isherwood's Weimar Berlin, the course will afford careful scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural moment of these writers and their works, informed by such noted observers of the period as Georg Simmel, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, and M. M. Bakhtin.
Class Description:
"Modernism and the Metropolitan Novel: London, Dublin, Berlin" investigates the role of the metropolitan novel in shaping modernism and, more broadly, modern culture. In tandem, it considers the effects modernity has wrought on novels of the city. Among the questions we shall pursue are these. How is it that the city novels of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Christopher Isherwood succeed in transforming the English novel of the city from lowbrow popular literature to experimental art form? What's more, how do they manage to fuse the domestic scene, the classic terrain of the novel genre (think Samuel Richardson's novels forward), with Charles Baudelaire's romantic pedestrian, the flaneur? What effects does this paradigm shift exact, moreover, on the classic realist novel and on culture at large? Can such fictive journeys engender cities, or is this another instance of artistic (or critical) hubris? In traversing Richardson's fin de siècle London to Isherwood's Weimar Berlin, the course will afford careful scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural moment of these writers and their works, informed by such noted observers of the period as Georg Simmel, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, and M. M. Bakhtin.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33512/1189
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5 February 2018

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