A319: Literature in the Modern World

Study Calendar 2007-2008

Semester 1: Block 1
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Block 1: Introduction Introduction Literature in
This is an introductory block which gives the
guidance in close reading, introduces Modern World:
major theoretical approaches and offers an Critical Essays &
overview of the course as a whole. Documents
(Essays)
Short Stories ° ‘The Place of Literary  John Barrell CD 1,  Form and
1 (The Prose Anthology) ‘Close Track 1 Genre (pp. 1-
Theory in the Course’ (pp.
• Virginia Woolf, ‘Kew Gardens’ (pp. 44- 1-6) Reading’ (pp. 4)
49) 131-138)
• (cf. Tutorials 3 & 12) ° See: Article in Block  From English
Three, (pp. 138-141) Literature to
• D.H. Lawrence, ‘Odour of ° ‘Kew Gardens’ (pp. 12-17) Literature in
Chrysanthemums’ (pp. 50-68) CD 1, English (p. 1)
° ‘Prose Fiction’ (pp. 7-10)
• Doris Lessing, ‘The Old Chief Mshlanga’ ° ‘The Old Chief Mshlanga’ Tracks 4-5
(pp. 133-143) (pp. 10-12)  Reading
• Elizabeth Bishop, ‘In the Village’ (pp. Narrative
Fiction (pp. 4-
110-128) (See: Block Three Literature
6)
and Ideology, p. 177)

Drama ° ‘Drama’ (pp. 36-45)  Umberto Eco

2 (The Poetry and Drama Anthology) ‘Semiotics of
• Samuel Beckett, Endgame (pp. 218- Theatrical
261) Performance’
(pp. 114-121)
 Martin Esslin
‘The Signs of
Drama (pp.
121-131)
Poetry ° Poetry, ‘Poems as CD 1,  Reading Poetry
3 (The Poetry and Drama Anthology) narratives’ (pp. 18-20) Track 2 (p. 2)
• Thomas Hardy, ‘During Wind and Rain’ ° ‘Poems as Speeches’ (pp.
(in Block One, p. 18) 20-22)
° ‘The Second Coming’ (pp.
• Wilfred Owen, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
23-25)
(p. 33) (See also: CD 1 – Track 2) CD 1,
° ‘Poetic Imagery’ (pp. 26-  Reading Poetry
• W.B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’ (p. 9) 30)
Track 3
(pp. 2-4)
• T.S. Eliot, ‘Preludes’ in T.S. Eliot:
The ° ‘Blackberrying’ (pp. 30-
Waste Land and other Poems (pp. 9-11) 35)
(See also: CD 1 – Track 3) ° ‘Conclusion’ (pp. 33-35)
• Sylvia Plath, ‘Blackberrying’ (p. 153)
 Semester 1: Block 2
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Block 2: The Impact of Modernism The Impact of Modernism Literature in
This block studies the development of a the
‘school’ of writing within the context of Modern World:
cultural and historical changes in the early Critical Essays &
twentieth century. Documents
(Essays)

Set Novel ° ‘What was Modernism?’  Seymour CD 1,  Reading

4 • Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Chatman, Tracks 4- narrative
(pp. 1-16) Prepare for
‘Story and 5 fiction (pp. 4-
° ‘A study guide to Mrs. Narrative’ (pp. 6)
TMA 01
Short Stories (The Prose Anthology) (Due Week
Dalloway’ (pp. 17-31) 103-113) 6)
• Mrs. Dalloway cf. – ‘Kew Gardens’ (pp. ° ‘Mrs. Dalloway and
44-49)  Gerard
narrative time’ (pp. 32-39) Genette,
• (cf. Tutorials 1 & 2) ° Mrs. Dalloway: language ‘Order in
and gender’ (pp. 40-49) Narrative (pp.
144-153)
Poetry Set Book ° ‘A study guide to The  Terry Eagleton,
5 • T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other ‘Marxist
Waste Land’ (pp. 50-66)
Poems ° ‘Poetic Language’ (pp. 67- Criticism’ (pp.
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ 84) 182-191)
(pp. 3-8)  Robert
The Waste Land(pp. 20-46) Scholes,
‘Towards a
Semiotics of
Literature’ (pp.
154-161)
 Paul Valéry,
‘Remarks on
Poetry’ (pp.
139-143)

Drama and Poetry ° ‘Modernism and Ideology’ • John McGrath, CD 2,  Modernism:

6 (The Poetry & Drama Anthology) Track 1 Sweeney
(pp. 102-109) ‘Behind the
• T.S. Eliot, ‘Sweeney Agonistes’ (pp. ° ‘Modernist Drama’ (pp. Clichés of Agonistes’(pp.
206-217) 110-113) Contemporary 7-8)
TMA 01
(See also: CD 2 – Track 1) ° ‘A study guide to poems Theater’ (pp.
CD 2, Due
• W.B Yeats’ Poems (pp. 3-17) by W.B. Yeats’ (pp. 85-101) 209-216)
Track 2
• George
‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ (p. 4)
Lukács, ‘The  The Dreaming
‘The Fisherman’ (pp. 5-6)
Ideology of of the Bones
‘Sailing to Byzantium’ (p. 10) Modernism’ (pp. 9-10)
‘Easter 1916’ (pp. 6-8) (pp. 161-167)
‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ (pp. • Raymond
 11-14) Williams,
‘Lapis Lazuli’ (pp. 16-17) ‘Modernism
• W.B. Yeats, ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’ and the
(pp. 195-205) (See also: CD 2 – Metropolis’
Track 2) (pp. 168-174)
• Recommende
d Reading:
Edward Said,
‘Yeats and
Decolonisation
’ (pp. 29-37)
 Semester 1: Block 3
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Block 3: Literature & Ideology Ideology and Englishness Literature in
‘Ideology and ‘Englishness’ the
This block begins with a discussion of Modern World:
(Marxist) ideology, the foundation of Critical Essays &
subsequent theoretical & methodological Documents
discussion. Applied analysis of ideology:
‘Englishness’.
Short Stories ° ‘Literature and Ideology’  Marilyn Butler: CD 1,  ‘Form and
7 (The Prose Anthology) ‘Repossessing Track 1 Genre’ (p. 1) Prepare for
(pp. 3-22)
• Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Sahibs War’ (pp. 1- the Past: The TMA 02
° ‘What is Englishness’ (pp.
Case for an CD 3, (Due
14) 38-51)  Literature and
Open Literary Tracks 1- Week 12)
• P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Indian Summer of an ° ‘Consciousness in Fiction’ Ideology:
History’ (pp. 3- 3
Uncle’ (pp. 15-35) (pp. 66-70) Theory and
11)
° Kipling: ‘A Sahib’s War’  Frank
practice (pp.
(pp. 23-37) 11-12)
Kermode:
° P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Indian CD 3,
‘Canon and  ‘Literature and
Summer of an Uncle’ (pp. Track 4
Period’ (pp. Ideology’ (pp.
71-79) 11-15) 12-13)
 Stanley Fish: CD 3,
‘Interpreting Track 5
the Variorum’  ‘Meaning and
(pp. 52-59) interpretation’
 Robert (pp. 13-14)
Scholes: ‘Who
Cares About
the Text’(pp.
60-64)
 Jean-Paul
Sartre:
‘Situation of
the Writer in
1947’ (pp.
176-181)
 Theodor
Adorno:
‘Commitment’
(pp. 86-97)
 Pierre
Macherey:
‘The Text Says
What It Does
Not Say’ (pp.
191-199)
 Drama and Poetry ° ‘Georgian Poetry’ (pp. 52-  Etienne
8 (The Poetry and Drama Anthology) Balibar and
65)
Georgian Poems: Pierre
• John Drinkwater, ‘Of Greatham’ (pp. 24- Macherey: ‘On
25) Literature as
• Charlotte Mew, ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ (pp. an Ideological
18-19) Form’ (pp.
• Edmund Blunden, ‘The Barn’ (pp. 34-40) 199-205)
• Edward Thomas:  Roland
Barthes: ‘The
‘The Penny Whistle’ (p. 21)
Death of the
‘The Old Man’ (pp. 20-21)
Author’ (pp.
‘Adlestrop’ (p. 22) 205-209)
‘As the Team’s Head Brass’ (p. 23)  Neville Cardus:
‘Good Days’
(pp. 216-220)

9 Mid-Term Assessment No set texts No reader essays MTA 01

• W.H. Auden’s Poetry (pp. 65-80) ° ‘W.H. Auden’ (pp. 80-93)  W.H. Auden: CD 4,  Auden &
10 ‘Memorable Tracks 1- Betjeman (pp.
(See also: CD 4 – Tracks 1-2)
2
‘A Bride in the 30s’ (pp. 73-75) ° ‘Memorable Speech’ (See:  Speech’ (pp. 15-16)
‘Perhaps’ (pp. 66-67) [Reader] Literature in the 222-225)
‘The Malverns’ (pp. 69-73) Modern World, pp. 222-  E.M. Forster:
225) ‘Notes on the
 ‘Paysage Moralisé’ (pp. 68-69)
• John Betjeman’s Poetry (pp. 55-64) ° “Modernism and ‘poetic’ English
language” in Block Two: Character’ (pp.
‘Death in Leamington’ (p. 55)
The Impact of Modernism 220-222) CD 4,
‘Slough’ (pp. 57-58)
(pp. 81-84)  Asa Briggs: Tracks 2
‘How to Get On in Society’ (p. 62)
‘Hunter Trials’ (p. 61-62) ‘The English:
‘A Subaltern’s Love-Song’ (p. 58-59) ° ‘John Betjeman’ (pp. 94- How the
102) Nation Sees
‘Archibald’ (pp. 63-64)
Itself’ (pp.
‘Mortality’ (p. 63) (See: CD 4/Track 2) 235-242)
‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the
Cadagon Hotel’ (p. 56)  George Orwell:
‘The Lion and
the Unicorn’
(pp. 225-234)
Set Novel ° Evelyn Waugh, Officers CD 4  ‘Home and
11 • Evelyn Waugh, Officers and Track 3 Abroad’ (pp.
and Gentlemen (pp. 103-
Gentlemen 122) 16-17)
Block 3: Literature & Ideology Ideology, Language and Literature in
‘Language, Gender and Ideology’ Gender the
Applied analysis of ideology: language and Modern World:
gender Critical Essays &
Documents
 Short Stories ° Introduction: Gender and  Virginia Woolf:
(The Prose Anthology) Ideology (pp. 125-137) ‘Woman and
12 • Virginia Woolf, ‘Kew Gardens’ (pp. 44- ° ‘Gender and genre’ (pp. Nationalism’
49) 149-153) (pp. 242-246) CD 5,  Feminist TMA 02
(cf. Tutorials 1 & 3) ° Virginia Woolf, ‘Kew Tracks 1- theory and Due
• Ernest Hemingway, ‘The Short Happy  Virginia Woolf, 3
Gardens’ (pp. 138-141) practice (p. 18)
Life ‘To
of Francis Macomber’ (pp. 69-98)
° Ernest Hemingway, ‘The  Cambridge
Short Happy Life of Francis Women’ (pp.
• Elizabeth Bishop, ‘In the Village’
Macomber’ (pp. 142-158) 73-79)
(pp. 110-128) (cf. Tutorial 1)
° Activity: ‘In the Village’ (p.  Simone De
• Stevie Smith, extract from ‘Over the 177) Beauvoir,
Frontier’ (pp. 108-109)
° Activity:exract from ‘Over ‘Woman and
the Frontier’ (pp. 160-161) the Other’ (pp.
246-251)
Drama and Poetry  Sandra Gilbert CD 5,  The poetry of
13 (The Poetry & Drama Anthology) and Susan Tracks 4- Stevie Smith
• Stevie Smith’s Poetry: ° ‘Stevie Smith’ (pp. 154- Gubar, Women 14 (pp. 18-21)
‘My Muse’ (p. 46) 161) Poets’ (pp. 22-
29)
‘Thoughts About the Person From  Cora Kaplan, CD 5,
 ‘Jungle
Porlock’ (pp. 44-45) ‘Language and Track 11
Husband’
‘The Jungle Husband’ (pp. 43-44) ° ‘Sylvia Plath’ (pp. 162- Gender’ (pp.
• Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: 170) 252-257)
(cf. Blackberrying / Tutorial 2)
‘The Colossus’ (p. 152)
‘Daddy’ (pp. 154-156)
‘Nick and the Candlestick’ (pp. 156-157)
‘Mirror’ (p. 154)
• Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry: ° ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ (pp.  Lionel Trilling,
14 ‘The Fish’ (pp. 81-82) 171-177) ‘Freud and
At the Fishhouses’ (pp. 83-84) Literature’ (pp.
In the Waiting Room’ (pp. 85-87) 38-44)
° ‘Adrienne Rich’ (pp. 178-
• Adrienne Rich, ‘Culture and Anarchy’ 183)
(pp. 119-123)
15 Revision Week No set texts No reader essays