English Literature - 20th-century Novel

Code:

FLUP0831

Acronym:

LIRS20

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAA	10	Official Study Plan - LEAA	2	2,5	5	-
EE	3	Official Study Plan - LEE	3	2,5	5	-
			4
EFI	5	Official Study Plan - LEFI	2	2,5	5	-
			3
EIA	14	Official Study Plan - LEIA	2	2,5	5	-
			3
			4
EPI	21	Official Study Plan - LEPI	2	2,5	5	-
			3

Objectives

The Modernist period brings to Literature fascinating experiences in the search for a different way of writing, as a consequence of a demanding but troubled view of reality and expression of profound and disturbing interior resonances. James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, for the innovative dimension of their artistic choices, for the density and “openness” of their texts, have decisively contributed to the understanding of the 20th century and of the part played by Literature in the quest for a new perspective on people in their dazzling and complex aspirations. As a consequence of this view, this programme intends to demonstrate that the act of reading is a real “act of attention”; that it confirms the power of Literature in its inseparable connection with reality; and that the contact with the literary text stimulates questioning and critical sense – which is, after all, the essential purpose of a course of studies in Humanities.

Program

“Why the novel matters” – three moments of the novel in the modernist period.

Preliminaries

1.Organizing and planning.
2.Justification of the programme and of its title.
3.Elucidation of the plan of studies.

Perspectives

1.Defense of Literature.
2.The act of reading as an “act of attention”.
3.The effect of awareness and the quest for reality.

Contexts

1.“The Sense of an Ending”.
2.In search of a new mode of expression.

I – James Joyce (1882-1941)
I.1. – “A fluid succession of presents”.
I.2. – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) – the irradiating centre.
I.3. – “Innocence” vs. “Experience”.
I.4. – Epiphanies and the search for identity.
I.5. – Closing view – against clock-time.

II – D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
II.1. – In search of an integrating consciousness.
II.2. – The theoretical aim – “Why the novel matters” and other essays.
II.3. – Women in Love (1921) – the irradiating centre.
II.4. – Symbology and meaning.
II.5. – Of love, of death and the phoenix.

III - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
III.1. – “Is life like this”?
III.2. – The theoretical aim – “Modern Fiction” and other essays.
III.3. – Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - the irradiating centre.
III.4. – Narrative voice and viewpoint.
III.5. – Closing view – from “waves” to poetry.

Conclusion –
1.The future of the past.
2.Literature as girder.

Main Bibliography

BATCHELOR, John – Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
BEDIENT, Calvin – Architects of the Self: George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.
BELL, Michael – The Context of English Literature 1900-1930. London, Methuen, 1980.
BRADBURY, Malcolm & McFARLANE, James (eds.) – Modernism 1890-1930. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1976.
CLARKE, Colin (ed.) – The Rainbow and Women in Love: a Casebook. London, Macmillan, 1969.
CUNHA, Gualter (coord.) – Literatura Inglesa III. Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 2001.
DALESKI, H.M. – The Forked Flame – a Study of D.H. Lawrence. London, Faber and Faber, 1965.
FAULKNER, Peter (ed.) – A modernist Reader – Modernism in England 1910-1930.
London, Batsford, 1986.
GIFFORD, Don – Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984.
GRANT, Damian – D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love. London, The British Council, 1976.
HOBSBAUM, Philip – A Reader’s Guide to D.H. Lawrence. London, Thames & Hudson, 1981.
HOMANS, Margaret (ed.) – Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
JACKSON, Tony E. – The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf and Joyce. Michigan, The University Press, 1995.
LEAVIS, F.R. – D.H. Lawrence: Novelist. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1973.
LODGE, David (ed.) – 20th Century Literary Criticism. A Reader. London, Longman Group, 1972.
REYNOLDS, Mary T. (ed.) – James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
SAGAR, Keith – D.H. Lawrence: Life into Art. London, Penguin Books, 1985.
SCHWARZ, Daniel R. – The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 – Studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster and Woolf. Houndmills, MacMillan Press, 1995.
SPENDER, Stephen (ed.) – D.H. Lawrence: Novelist, Poet, Prophet. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973.
STEVENSON, Randall – Modernist Fiction: An Introduction. Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
SULTAN, Stanley – Eliot, Joyce and Company. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987.
TINDALL, William York – Forces in Modern British Literature 1885-1946. Freeport, New York, Books for Libraries Press, 1947.
TRATNER, Michael – Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995.

Obs.: This bibliography has been formed only with books available in the Faculty Library. More details may be indicated during the academic year.
The edition to be used for each of the three novels is that of the Penguin Twentieth Century Classics.

Complementary Bibliography

To be indicated during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes.

Software

Not applicable.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Positive mark in the final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam counts for 100% (=20 marks) of the final mark.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations of the FLUP.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese.