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MA in English (Modernities)
Timetable 2012-13
Week beginning
24 Sept
1 Oct
8 Oct
15 Oct (see additional seminars
below)
22 Oct
29 Oct (see additional seminars
below)
5 Nov
12 Nov (see additional
seminars below)
19 Nov (see additional
seminars below)
26 Nov
3 Dec
10 Dec
17 Dec
Christmas Break
7 Jan
Monday 1.00-3.00
ORB 1.65
No Class
Theory: Habermas and Jameson
GA
Theory: Lyotard and Baudrillard
GA
Theory: Derrida GA
Thursday 12.00-2.00
ORB 1.65
Introductory Class Meeting
Theory: Nietzsche AD
Theory: Freud GA
Holiday
Theory: Narratology AG
Theories and praxis of the avantgarde AD
Week
Modernism: O’Neill, The Emperor
Jones AE
Modernism: O’Neill, Strange
Interlude AE
Modernism: Beckett, Waiting for
Godot AE
Modernism: Beckett, Endgame AE
Reading
Modernism: Pound, selected
poems and essays AD
Modernism: Eliot, The Waste Land
and selected essays AD
Modernism: Loy and H.D.,
selected poems and prose AD
Modernism: Woolf, Between the
Acts and other prose AD
Modernism: Joyce, Ulysses HL
Reading
Theories of Romanticism GA
14 Jan
Theories of Romanticism GA
21 Jan
Romanticism: Byron, Cain GA
28 Jan
Romanticism: Keats, ‘The Fall of
Hyperion: A Dream’ GA
4 Feb
Romanticism: Shelley, ‘The
Triumph of Life’ GA
Romanticism: Shelley, ‘The
Triumph of Life’ GA
Reading
Feminism and Romanticism
CÓG
Romanticism: Barbauld,
Charlotte Smith, Robinson,
Burke, Wordsworth, selected
texts CÓG
Romanticism: Barbauld,
Charlotte Smith, Robinson,
Burke, Wordsworth, selected
texts CÓG
Holiday
Research Presentations
11 Feb
18 Feb
25 Feb
4 March (see additional
seminars below)
11 March
18 March
25 March
Easter Break
Theory: Saussure BM
Theory: Marx AG
Modernism: Joyce, Ulysses HL
Week
Modernism: Williams, Spring and
All LJ
Modernism: The Harlem
Renaissance LJ
Postmodernism and Film: The
Shining (Kubrick) BM
Postmodernism and Film: Ghost
Dog: The Way of the Samurai
(Jarmusch) BM
Postmodernism and Film:
Goodbye Lenin (Becker) BM
Postmodernist Fiction: Borges,
selected texts AG
Week
Postmodernist Fiction:
Doctorow, The Book of Daniel AG
Romanticism: Edgeworth, Belinda
CÓG
No class
No class
Research Presentations
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Additional Seminars*
Week beginning
15 Oct
29 Oct
12 Nov
19 Nov
4 March
Tuesday 4.00-6.00
ORB 1.65
Yeats, selected poems and prose
AD
Yeats, selected poems and prose
AD
O’Brien, The Third Policeman PC
Beckett, First Love and Other
Novellas PC
Edgeworth, The Absentee CC
Thursday 4.00-6.00
ORB 1.65
Yeats, selected poems and prose
AD
O’Brien, The Third Policeman PC
* While not mandatory, these seminars are strongly recommended, and there will be the opportunity to use the
material covered therein in relevant assessments.
Staff: GA (Professor Graham Allen); CC (Professor Claire Connolly); PC (Professor Patricia Coughlan);
AD (Professor Alex Davis); AE (Dr Anne Etienne); AG (Dr Alan Gibbs); LJ (Dr Lee Jenkins); HL (Dr
Heather Laird); BM (Dr Barry Monahan); CÓG (Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir).
Reading List
1. THEORY
Jürgen Habermas, ‘Modernity—an Incomplete Project’, in Peter Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism
(London: Longman, 1992).
Fredric Jameson, ‘Postmodernism and Consumer Society’, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Jean-François Lyotard, ‘Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?’, in Brooker, ed.,
Modernism/Postmodernism.
Jean Baudrillard, from ‘Simulacra and Simulations’, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Jacques Derrida, TBA
Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On the Use and Abuse of History for Life’ (1874); available as a photocopy;
[online], <http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/history.htm> accessed 4 July 2012.
Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901); selections available as a photocopy.
Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London: Methuen, 1976); available in Boole Library, 801.9
EAGL.
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977); available in Boole
Library, 801.9 MARX.W.
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (London: Methuen, 1983); available in
Boole Library, 808.3 RIMM.
Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, tr. Jane E. Lewin (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980);
available in Boole Library, U 808.3 GENE.
Richard Walsh, ‘Who is the Narrator?’ Poetics Today 18/4 (1997), 495-513; available online via JStor.
Jonathan Culler, ‘Omniscience,’ Narrative 12/1 (2004), 22-34; available online via JStor.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, ed. Charles Bally and Albert Reidlinger, tr. Wade
Baskin (Glasgow: Fontana, 1974); available in Boole Library, 410 SAUS.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949); selections available as a photocopy.
Laura Kipnis, ‘Feminism: The Political Conscience of Postmodernism?’, in Brooker, ed.,
Modernism/Postmodernism.
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (2nd edn, London: Routledge, 1999),
selections available as a photocopy.
Sabina Lovibond, ‘Feminism and Postmodernism,’ New Left Review, 1/178 (1989); available online via
JStor.
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2. MODERNISM
Peter Bürger, ‘Avant-Garde and Engagement’, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Theodor Adorno, ‘Letter to Walter Benjamin’, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Lawrence Rainey, ed.,
Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Bertolt Brecht, from ‘The Popular and the Realistic’, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Georg Lukács, from The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, in Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism.
Futurist, Dada, and Surrealist texts, in Rainey, ed., Modernism: An Anthology.
Poetry and critical essays by W. B. Yeats, H.D., T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound and William Carlos
Williams, in Rainey, ed., Modernism: An Anthology.
Harlem Renaissance texts; available as a photocopy.
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts and critical essays, in Rainey, ed., Modernism: An Anthology.
James Joyce, Ulysses: The 1922 Text, ed. Jeri Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Eugene O’Neill, The Emperor Jones, in Eugene O’Neill, ‘Anna Christie’ and ‘The Emperor Jones’ (London: Nick
Hern, 1991).
Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude; available as a photocopy.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; available as a photocopy.
Samuel Beckett, Endgame, in Rainey, ed., Modernism: An Anthology.
Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000).
Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (London: Flamingo, 1993).
W. B. Yeats, Yeats’s Poetry, Drama, and Prose, ed., James Pethica (New York: Norton, 2000).
3. POSTMODERNISM
Jorge Luis Borges, selected texts; available as a photocopy.
E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006).
The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, dir. (Warner Brothers, 1980).
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch, dir. (Channel Four Films, 1999).
Goodbye Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker, dir. (Sony Pictures, 2003).
4. ROMANTICISM
Byron, Cain (1821); available as a photocopy.
John Keats, ‘The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream’ (1819); available as a photocopy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘The Triumph of Life’ (1822); available as photocopy.
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, ed., Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, ed., Heidi Thomson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2007).
Selected texts by Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, William Wordsworth;
available as a photocopy.
Set Texts (aside from films, photocopies, and texts available online and in the Boole Library)
All available at John Smith’s Booksellers, Aras na MacLéinn/Devere Hall
Peter Brooker, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism (London: Longman, 1992).
Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000).
E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006).
Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, ed. Heidi Thomson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2007).
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, ed., Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
James Joyce, Ulysses: The 1922 Text, ed. Jeri Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (London: Flamingo, 1993).
Eugene, O’Neill, ‘Anna Christie’ and ‘The Emperor Jones’ (London: Nick Hern, 1991).
Lawrence Rainey, ed., Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
W. B. Yeats, Yeats’s Poetry, Drama, and Prose, ed., James Pethica (New York: Norton, 2000).