COMP 325
Joyce, Woolf, and Proust Spring 2014
Division I
Cross-listed ENGL 325
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This seminar focuses on novels by three of the most important writers of modernist fiction: Marcel Proust (Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove, the first two novels of his sequence In Search of Lost Time); Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse); and James Joyce (Ulysses — a novel we will read in somewhat abridged form; newcomers to that novel as well as those who have already studied it in a prior course are welcome). 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 the face of social 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.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3735
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: regular class participation, two 8- to 10-page papers
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: English majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 325 Division I COMP 325 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Literary Histories C

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