ENGL 325
Joyce, Woolf, and Proust
Fall 2017
Division I
Cross-listed
COMP 366
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Class Details
This seminar focuses on novels by three of the most important writers of modernist fiction: Marcel Proust (Swann’s Way, the first novel of his sequence In Search of Lost Time); Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse); and James Joyce (Ulysses, read in slightly abridged form). By juxtaposing these pathbreaking texts, we will examine the distinctive yet related ways in which they explore crucial preoccupations of modernism: the threat and the exhilaration of cultural loss in face of social and political transformations in the early twentieth century; the turn to memory, to art, and to objects as stays against de-stabilized subjectivity and as means of re-thinking value; the emergence of new forms of political and sexual identity; the heightening of consciousness to the verge of transport or disintegration; and the roots and perversities of desire. Students who have studied Ulysses in a previous course are welcome.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 1854
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 1854
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
regular class participation, two 8- to 10-page papers
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites:
a 100-level ENGL course, a score of 5 on the AP English Lit exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam; students who have taken ENGL 360 are welcome
Enrollment Preferences:
English majors, Comparative Literature majors
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 366 Division I ENGL 325 Division I
COMP 366 Division I ENGL 325 Division I
Attributes:
ENGL Literary Histories C
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ENGL 325 - 01 (F) SEM Joyce, Woolf, and Proust
ENGL 325 - 01 (F) SEM Joyce, Woolf, and ProustDivision ITF 1:10 pm - 2:25 pm
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