İDE317

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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6

Elective

English

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Undergraduate

The course will focus on modernist writers and analyzes the modern English novel from political, historical and sociological perspectives based on the ideas of philosophers.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899; Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse, 1927; James Joyce, A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916.
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel.
De Man, Paul. "Literary History and Literary Modernity."

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the emergence of modernism, its characteristics as a philosophical and artistic movement, and its development as the major literary movement of the 20th century.
century as the major literary movement of the 20th century.

1. To have knowledge about the political, cultural and intellectual infrastructure of the 20th century
2. To learn modernist writing styles
3. Recognize different modernisms
4. Understanding the common values of modernism

Week 1: Historical and political background of the 20th century
Week 2: Modernism and the modern novel
Week 3: T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"; Joseph Conrad "Preface" to "The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Week 4: Henri Bergson, "Is Duration Measurable?" from Time and Free Will
Week 5: Colonialism and Modernism: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Week 6: Colonialism and Modernism: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Week 7: Midterm & The Bloomsbury Group
Week 8: Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Week 9: Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Week 10: Irish Modernism: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Week 11: Irish Modernism: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Week 12: In-class Article Writing and Review

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Homework 20 %
• Participation 10 %