Modernism Module, Spring 2004

Monday, April 5

• "The Twentieth Century" (anthology 1991)
  • "Inside the Whale Inside: A Hypertextual Journey into the Belly of Modernism," by Robert Scholes, whom you may have seen give a lecture on Montage and Modern Art at Grinnell last year.

• James Joyce, "Eveline" (anthology 2277) and "Clay" (anthology 2280) from Dubliners (1914)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Joyce as novelist and short-fiction writer

  • The Modern World, which produces excellent author pages, has an extensive one devoted to Joyce.

  • R.L. Callahan of Temple maintains Work in Progress, an excellent Joyce site including articles, maps of Joyce's Dublin, and much more.

  • Edward J. Maloney and David F. Fanning of Ohio State maintain the James Joyce Resource Center, with a bibliography of books, a timeline, and "casebooks" of references to Joyce scholarship grouped by critical approach.

  • Yet another very good site: The James Joyce Portal

Prepare a comment or question for the post-lecture discussion.

• Joyce, "The Dead" (anthology 2284) from Dubliners (1914)

Linking Passage Exercise: Group III

Note: this is the first day with the realigned small groups for the Modernism unit.

Seminar A (Groups I, II, and III) meets in the classroom, and Group I submits responses individually by Thursday night. Seminar B meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #4. All other members of Groups IV, V, and VI submit responses by Thursday night.

• Speeches on Irish independence (anthology 2233)

• William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916" (1916, anthology 2249) and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1922, anthology 2249)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Yeats as poet and essayist

Linking Passage Exercise: Group IV

• Virginia Woolf, first part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2387-2439)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Woolf as novelist and essayist

  • Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction -- A Distance Learning Project (Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson) was originally a course page for a distance-learning project; it is now an archive of discussions, a brief chronology and primary bibliography, and excerpts from some of the women's works Woolf discusses.

  • This collaborative site on Mrs. Dalloway has a lot of material that can help orient you in the novel.

Linking Passage Exercise: Group V

Seminar B (Groups IV, V, and VI) meets in the classroom, and Group IV submits responses individually by Thursday night. Seminar A meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #4. All other members of Groups I, II, and III submit responses by Thursday night.

• Woolf, rest of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2439-2485)

Linking Passage Exercise: Group VI

• Evelyn Waugh, "The Man Who Liked Dickens" (1933, anthology 2720)

• George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (1950, anthology 2738) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936, anthology 2747)

• Salman Rushdie, "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella Consummate Their Relationship" (1991, anthology 2752)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Waugh as novelist and short-fiction writer, Orwell as essayist, and Rushdie as novelist

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (subscription only): Waugh and Rushdie

  • Doubting Hall: A Guided Tour around the Works of Evelyn Waugh

  • A solid page of Orwell resources

  • And one for Rushdie while we're at it

Linking Passage Exercise: Group I

Seminar A (Groups I, II, and III) meets in the classroom, and Group II submits responses individually by Thursday night. Seminar B meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #5 (or #1 if the group has four members). All other members of Groups IV, V, and VI submit responses by Thursday night.

• Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (1958, anthology 2771)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Beckett as dramatist

  • Apmonia: a site for Samuel Beckett by The Modern World, has an impressive array of top-notch information available from its long front page, including a biography, articles, reviews, notes on productions, and an image gallery.

  • The University of California at Santa Barbara hosts The Samuel Beckett Endpage, a strong site although probably second to Apmonia.

Linking Passage Exercise: Group II

• Beckett, Endgame (1958)

Linking Passage Exercise: Group III

Seminar B (Groups IV, V, and VI) meets in the classroom, and Group V submits responses individually by Thursday night. Seminar A meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #5 (or #1 if the group has four members). All other members of Groups I, II, and III submit responses by Thursday night.

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE
FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS

• Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), all anthology readings (2891)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Heaney as poet

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (subscription only): Heaney

  • Heaney's Nobel Prize page

Linking Passage Exercise: Group IV

• Derek Walcott (b. 1930), all anthology readings (2950)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (subscription only): Walcott

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (subscription only): Walcott

  • Walcott's Nobel page

Linking Passage Exercise: Group V

Last day: wrapping up, questions about the final paper or exam, tearing of hair and weeping because the class must end.

FINAL EXAM AT 9:00 AM
OR FINAL PAPER DUE BY 2:00 PM