ENGLISH 154A: The Modernist Novel (seminar)

Taught by: Alice Staveley

Fall Quarter, 2009-2010

MW 2:15-4:05, Room: 160-329

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This course examines the innovations in artistic form and the representation of consciousness in the British modernist novel. It addresses canonical modernists’ concerns with identity, sexuality, cultural tradition, gender, race, imperialism, the country/city divide, time and memory as each writer strove to reinvent the realist novel to express the modern moment. Authors include Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, West and Woolf.

This course fulfills the following Major Requirements:

  • Genre: Prose Fiction
  • Major's Seminar
  • Hist. Period: Post 1900