ENGL 225
Romanticism and Modernism Spring 2014
Division I Writing Skills
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, literature written in English participated in two international aesthetic movements, Romanticism and Modernism, respectively. While Modernism is often thought to mark a decisive break with Romanticism–in part because both movements presented themselves as “new,” a radical departure from what had gone before–there are important continuities and affinities as well as breaches between the two movements. This course will investigate the nature of Romanticism and Modernism, and the relation between them. We will study major works from each period, including polemics, poetry, novels, and short stories. Our Romantic writers will be primarily British, and will include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley; Modernist writers will include a more international cast of characters: Wilde, the French Symbolist poets, along with Pound, Stein, Williams, and several Harlem Renaissance writers. We will explore each movement’s engagement with a range of topics and issues: for example, the subjective experience of time and memory; the nature of symbolization and the role of “feeling” in art; the relation of the individual mind to social life; the conflicted appeal for the artist of “common” language and experience, on the one hand, and avant-garde forms of expression, on the other. Our broader aim will be to invite potential English majors to think critically about the principles that underlie the ordering of literary history into aesthetic movements and “periods.”
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3698
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class discussion; four or five short essays, including at least one revision totaling about 20 pages
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: sophomores intending to major in English
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Attributes: ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C

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