ENGL 23030 - Modern British Fiction and Poetry

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
As a survey of modernist British fiction and poetry, this course will address questions such as: What is modernism? Is modernism over? If not, what applicability and possibility does modernism have in relation to current sociopolitical and cultural trends? We will investigate the phenomenon of modernism (engaging its literary, artistic, philosophical, and historical development) and pay close attention to its techniques. In exploring fiction and short stories by such authors as Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Vita Sackville-West, and D. H. Lawrence we will see how these works speak to each other. We’ll also be reading a collection of modern poetry by poets such as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. Literary and cultural criticism will guide our readings. [AH]