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ARLT 811 - Studies in British Literature3 credits
The modernist period in literature was one which concerned itself with the problem of knowledge. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the certainty of the Victorian sages gave way to a questioning of certain systems of faith (religion, science, nationalism, imperialism, etc.) that had not only been accepted as truth, but were also crucial to the construct of British modernity. Reading a handful of novelists who have become (to some extent) definitive of British modernism, this course seeks to identify specific preoccupations of the period and how those preoccupations impact narrative voice and structure. In doing so, students explore how modernist plots remap different fields of knowledge. Texts include works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce. Course may be repeated. 14 Same as: POSDOC+753
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