British Literature: 20th Century I
MODULE TITLE: British Literature: 20th Century I
AUTUMN 2010
NEPTUNE CODES: BTANN508/509; BTANL508/509
COURSE TYPE: Lectures and seminars
PROGRAMME: Full-time and part-time
CLASS HOURS: As advertised.
LINK TO COURSE HOMEPAGE: http://www.mfi.uni-miskolc.hu/dosa/btann508.htm
TUTOR: Dr. Attila Dósa
CONTACT: Office: A/6 Room 1. Office Hours: as advertised on my door or by appointment.
Phone: 46/565-111 x2285. E-mail: a_dosa@hotmail.com .
AIMS:
The course will introduce you to the development of English literature in the first half of the 20 th
century, with special attention to the great works of Modernism. You will learn about the
important theories and critical terms of the period. You will read some critical essays, so you
will have an opportunity to contrast practical criticism with theoretical approaches during the
discussion of the particular works. Moreover, you will have an opportunity to develop and
practise various skills and abilities, including:
- identifying and analysing an abstract problem;
- flexible and creative thinking;
- developing a complex argument;
- accuracy and clarity of expression in writing and speaking;
- textual analysis;
- computing skills;
- and general intellectual awareness.
ASSESSMENT:
The seminar grade will be based on:
- a mid-term and an end-term paper;
- your weekly worksheets and other written submissions;
- the occasional in-class test that is meant to check up on your reading and vocabulary;
- and finally your contribution to in-class discussion.
Please make sure you carefully acknowledge your sources in any written submission, as any
attempts at plagiarism will be severely penalised. More than three missed classes may mean no
signature; failure to pass any of the above assignments may mean a failure of this course.
You will find weekly Study Questions in the Lecture Notes. These are questions and/or
quotes that will help you identify and discuss the major issues we are going to deal with in the
classroom. You will be expected to answer these questions and bring your work to the classroom
as your answers will be checked regularly.
Below please find a list of the set texts as well as a bibliography of recommended readings.
Moreover, you will be able to access and download most of the primary sources from the course
homepage indicated above and in the Course Reader. It is strongly advised that you regularly
visit the course homepage, where you will also find updated links to relevant articles, criticism,
images, lecture notes on some occasion, and other sources. It will be taken for granted that you
will have familiarised yourselves with the online material before you come to class. I
recommend that you consult these sources when you revise the material for the two term papers.
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The online material as well as the secondary reading will be regarded as part of the course
material.
SCHEDULE (lectures and seminars; for orientation only!):
WEEK 1
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. MODERNISM: DOUBTS AND DEFINITIONS
READING: pp. 2195-2204 from the Norton Anthology
WEEK 2
‘THE LETTER KILLETH…’
READINGS: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles; ‘Hap’, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, ‘The
Voice’, ‘During Wind and Rain’, ‘In Time of the “Breaking of Nations”’
WEEK 3
‘FICTITIOUS MORALS’.
READINGS: G. B. Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession OR Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being
Earnest
WEEK 4
‘THE HORROR! THE HORROR!’
READINGS: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
WEEK 5
‘THINGS FALL APART’
READINGS: W. B. Yeats, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘Adam’s Curse’, ‘No Second Troy’,
‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’,
‘Sailing to Byzantium’
WEEK 6
PRESENTATIONS
WEEK 7
‘A SYMBOL OF SOMETHING’
READINGS: James Joyce, ‘Araby’, ‘Eveline’, ‘The Dead’ from Dubliners
WEEK 8
MID-TERM PAPER
WEEK 9
‘A MIND THINKING’
READINGS: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; ‘Modern Fiction’
WEEK 10
‘A HEAP OF BROKEN IMAGES’
READINGS: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land; ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
WEEK 11
‘…BUT THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE’
READING: E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
WEEK 12
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REVISION
WEEK 13
END-TERM PAPER
WEEK 14
CONCLUSIONS AND EVALUATION
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Symbols and allegories in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
2. Hardy’s agnosticism, fatalism and pessimism in Tess of the d’Urbervilles
3. Pessimism in Hardy’s poetry (‘Hap’, ‘The Darkling Thrush’…)
4. G.B. Shaw’s social criticism (Mrs Warren’s Profession)
5. Wilde’s paradoxes and his implied social criticism (The Importance of Being Earnest)
6. Symbols and allegories in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
7. Main characters and narrative structure in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
8. Nature and civilisation in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
9. Yeats’s political views (‘Easter 1916’)
10. Yeats’s vision of history (‘The Second Coming’)
11. Yeats’s love poetry (‘No Second Troy’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’…)
12. Realism and symbolism in Joyce’s short stories (‘Araby’, ‘Eveline’, ‘The Dead’)
13. Dublin as a model of human existence in Joyce’s fiction (‘Araby’, ‘Eveline’, ‘The Dead’)
14. Woolf’s theory of fiction (‘Modern Fiction’)
15. Characters and narrative technique in Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
16. Eliot’s concept of literary tradition (‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’)
17. Religion, rites and rituals in Eliot’s The Waste Land
18. Eliot’s dramatic monologues (‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’)
19. Main characters and their relationships in Forster’s A Room with a View
20. Allusions to classical mythology in Forster’s A Room with a View
REQUIRED READINGS FOR THE END-TERM PAPER / KOLLOKVIUM:
Poetry:
Thomas Hardy, ‘Hap’, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, ‘The Voice’, ‘During Wind and Rain’, ‘In Time
of the “Breaking of Nations”’
W.B. Yeats, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘Adam’s Curse’, ‘No Second Troy’, ‘The Wild Swans
at Coole’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’, ‘Sailing to
Byzantium’
T.S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’
Fiction:
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
James Joyce, ‘Araby’, ‘Eveline’, ‘The Dead’
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Plays:
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
G. B. Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession
Essays:
Virginia Woolf, ‘Modern Fiction’
T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
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COURSE BOOKS:
Abrams, M.H. et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 5th edn (New York:
Norton, 1987)
Levenson, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)
LECTURE NOTES
COUSE READER
FURTHER READING:
General Introduction to Modernism:
Abrams, M. H., (gen. ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature (New York: Norton,
2000) AIT
Allison, Alexander W. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry (New York: Norton, 1983) AIT,
KLM Olvasóterem BT10 C140.662, KLM C140.659, C140.660, C140.661
Allott, Kenneth (ed.), English Poetry: 1918-60 (London: Penguin, 1982) AIT
Báti, László, Kristó-Nagy István (ed.), Az angol irodalom a huszadik században (Bp.: Gondolat,
1970) KLM H24 C33.239, 240
Bertha, Csilla, English Literature in the Nineteenth Century and in the First Half of the
Twentieth (Bp.: Nemz. Tankvk., 1998) KLM 032.919,20
Bloom, Clive (ed.), Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, Vol. I: 1900-1929 (London; New
York: Longman, 1993), AIT
Brooker, Peter, Modernism / Postmodernism (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Cantor, Norman F., Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction (New York:
Lang, 1988) KVA
Childs, Peter, Modernism (London: Routledge, 2000) AIT
Daiches, David, A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 2., The Restoration to the Present
Day (London: Mandarin, 1994) AIT, KLM C140.165
Ford, Boris (ed.), The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: Vol. 7: From James to Eliot
(London: Penguin, 1983) AIT, KLM C140.191
Ford, Boris (ed.), The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Dickens to Hardy
(London: Penguin, 1991) AIT, KLM C140.190
Hewitt, Douglas, English Fiction and the Early Modern Period 1890-1940 (London: Longman,
1992) AIT
Levenson, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)
AIT
Massa, Ann, Alistair Stead (eds.), Forked Tongues?: Comparing Twentieth-century British and
American Literature (London; New York: Longman, 1994) AIT
McCormick, Peter, Modernity, Aesthetics and the Bounds of Art (Ithaca, Cornell University
Press, 1990) FTT
McHugh, Heather, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (London: Univ. Pr. of New England,
1993) AIT
Parkes, Adam, Modernism and the Theater of Censorship (Oxford, OUP, 1996) KET
Sarbu, Aladár (ed.), Könyörgés nyilvános költészetért: Tanulmányok, esszék, vitairatok a
harmincas évek szocialista angol irodalmából (Bp.: Európa, 1986) KLM C92.907
Somlyó, György, "Modernnek kell lenni mindenestül!" (Bp: Magvetõ, 1979) KLM A5.622
Trócsányi, Miklós, Szöveggyûjtemény a XIX-XX. századi angol irodalomból (Bp.: Tankvk.,
1992) KLM 026.782,3,4,5,6
Trotter, David, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (London: Routledge, 1993) AIT
Williams, Linda R (ed.), The Twentieth Century: A Guide to Literature from 1900 to the Present
Day (London: Bloomsbury, 1992) AIT
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Joseph Conrad:
Adams, Richard, Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Penguin Critical Studies (London:
Penguin, 1991) AIT
Conrad, Joseph, A sötétség mélyén (Bp.: Szépirodalmi, 1977) KLM A22.055
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (New York: Dover, 1990) KLM C118.361
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (London: Penguin, 1994) AIT
Cox, C. B. (ed.), Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes: A Selection of
Critical Essays, Casebook Series (London: Macmillan, 1981) AIT
Moser, Thomas (ed.), Lord Jim: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Sources, Essays in
Criticism (New York; London: Norton, 1968) AIT, KLM C140.682, C140.696, C140.697
Sarbu, Aladár, Joseph Conrad világa (Bp.: Európa, 1974) KLM C45.761
Watts, Cedric, A Preface to Conrad (London; New York: Longman, 1993) AIT
T. S. Eliot:
Coote, Stephen, T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (London: Penguin, 1988) AIT
Kappanyos, András, Kétséges egység: Az Átokföldje, és amit tehetünk vele (Bp.: Janus/Osiris,
2001) MIT
Moody, A. David, Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit: Essays on His Poetry and Thought (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1996) Bölcsészettud. Int. Ig. Hivatala
Rózsa, Olga, T. S. Eliot fogadtatása Magyarországon (Bp.: Akad. K., 1977) KLM A19.582
E. M. Forster:
Forster, E. M., A Room with a View (New York: Penguin, 1990) AIT, KLM A21.510,1
Forster, E. M., A regény aspektusai (Bp.: Helikon, 1999) KLM D106.661,2,3
Forster, E. M., Aspects of the Novel (Harcourt: Brace and Co., 1954) KLM A15.786
Forster, E. M., Szoba kilátással (Szeged: Lazi, 2002) KLM C167.367,8
Gillie, Christopher, A Preface to Forster (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
MacDonogh, Caroline, York Notes on E. M. Forster: Howards End (Harlow: Longman; 1991)
AIT
Shahane, Vasant A., E.M. Forster: A Passage to India, York Notes (Harlow: Longman York
Press, 1994) AIT
Stallybrass, Oliver (ed.), E.M. Forster: A Room with a View (New York: Penguin, 1990), AIT
Thomas Hardy:
Garson, Marjorie, Hardy's Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991)
AIT
Gittings, Robert, Young Thomas Hardy (London: Penguin, 1978) AIT
Hardy, Thomas, Egy tiszta nő, ford. Szabó Lőrinc (Bp.: Európa, 1983) KLM C80.860, C8.578
Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (London: Penguin, 1985) KLM
A12.018
Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (London: Penguin, 1994) AIT
Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Ware: Wordsworth, 1996) AIT
Sz. Kiss, Csaba, Hardy világa (Bp.: Európa, 1976) KLM C51.339, A19.237
Williams, Merryn, A preface to Hardy (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
James Joyce:
Attridge, Derek (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Pr., 1996) AIT
Bolt, Sydney, A Preface to James Joyce, Preface Books (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Egri, Péter, James Joyce és Thomas Mann: Dekandencia és modernség (Bp.: Akadémiai, 1967)
KLM C114.340
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Gifford, Don, Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Berkeley: UCP, 1999) AIT
Joyce, James, Dubliners (New York: Penguin, 1976) KLM C113.009
Joyce, James, Dubliners (Triad: Panther, 1977) AIT
Joyce, James, Dubliners (New York: Dover, 1991) KLM C118.223,6, C119.593,4,5,6,7,8,9,
C119.600,1
Joyce, James, Dubliners (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT
Joyce, James, Dubliners (London: Penguin, 1996) AIT
Joyce, James, Dublini emberek, ford. Papp Zoltán (Bp.: Helikon, 1970) KLM A16.930
Levin, Harry (ed. with an intro.), The Portable James Joyce (London: Penguin, 1976) KLM
C130.010
Naganowski, Egon, Joyce (Bp.: Gondolat, 1975) KLM C122.320
Rafroidi, Patrick, James Joyce: Dubliners, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1994) AIT
D. H. Lawrence:
Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers (London: Penguin, 1948) AIT
Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers (London: Penguin, 1995) AIT
Salgado, Gamini (ed.), D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers: A Selection of Critical Essays
(London: Macmillan, 1969)
Salgado, Gamini, A Preface to Lawrence (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
Oscar Wilde:
Ackroyd, Peter, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT
Rademacher, Jörg W., Oscar Wilde (Bp.: M. Kvklub, 2001) KLM H24C163.005, C163.003,
C163.004
Török, András, Oscar Wilde világa (Bp.: Európa, 1989) KLM C98.226
Wilde, Oscar, Gondolatok (Bp.: Szukits, 2001) KLM C158.541, C158.542
Wilde, Oscar, Összes mûvek (Bp.: Szukits, 2000) KLM H24D121.162, D121.161,
H24D121.052, 053, D126.888, 889
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays, Poems (London: Chancellor, 1996) KLM
C136.721
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays, Poems (London: Chancellor, 1998) AIT
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (New York: Dover, 1990) KLM C118.306
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (Harlow: Longman, 1993) AIT
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (London: Penguin, 1994) AIT
Vas, István (ed.) Oscar Wilde: Költemények, ford. Kosztolányi Dezső (Bp.: Szépirodalmi, 1957)
KLM C165.019
Virginia Woolf:
Bécsy, Ágnes, Virginia Woolf világa (Bp.: Európa, 1980) KLM C63.890
Bowlby, Rachel (ed.), Virginia Woolf (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Mepham, John, Virginia Wolf: Mrs Dalloway, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1992) AIT
Roe, Sue and Susan Sellers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge:
CUP, 2000) AIT
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway, with and intro. by Elaine Showalter (London: Penguin, 1992)
AIT
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (London: Penguin, 1996) AIT
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (Ware: Wordsworth, 1996) AIT
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (Bp.: Magyar Helikon, 1971) KLM A16.249
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (Bp.: Európa, 1987) KLM C93.452
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway, ford. Tandori Dezső (Bp.: Európa, 2003) KLM C175.077,8,9
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Woolf, Virginia, Saját szoba (Bp.: Európa, 1986) KLM A19.785
W. B. Yeats:
Bertha, Csilla, A drámaíró Yeats (Bp.: Akadémiai, 1988) KLM A10.966,7, A11.101
Ellmann, Richard, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (London: Penguin, 1987) AIT
Ferencz, Győző (ed.), W. B. Yeats versei (Bp.: Európa, 2000) MIT, KLM A 20.590,1
Kabdebó, Lóránt, Vers és próza a modernség második hullámában (Bp.: Akadémiai, 1996) MIT,
KLM C135.868
Malins, Edward, A Preface to Yeats, Preface Books (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Szentmihályi Szabó, Péter, W. B. Yeats világa (Bp.: Tankönyvkiadó, 1978) KLM A12.960,
A14.868
Webb, Timothy (ed.), W. B. Yeats: Selected Poetry (London: Penguin, 1991) AIT
Reference / Literary Histories:
Burgess, Anthony, English Literature: A Survey for Students (Harlow: Longman, 1998) KLM
C143.051
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Penguin Guide to English Literature: Britain and Ireland
(London: Penguin, 1996) KLM C139.637
Coote, Stephen, The Penguin Short History of English Literature (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT,
KLM C139.645
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C140.164,5
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KEY: AIT (Angol Irodalom Tanszéki Könyvtár), FTT (Filozófiatörténeti Tanszéki Könyvtár), KET (Közép-Európa Tanszéki Könyvtár), KLM
(Központi Egyetemi Könyvtár, Levéltár és Múzeum), KVA (Kulturális és Vizuális Antropológia Tanszéki Könyvtár), MIT (Magyar
Irodalomtudományi Tanszéki Könyvtár)
Dr Attila Dósa
Department of English Literature
University of Miskolc