The Modernist era
Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)
November 28: VOICES FROM WORLD WAR I
Voices from World War I (2016)
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (2037) - Mak
Siegfried Sassoon, "Glory of Women" (2025)
Isaac Rosenberg, "Dead Man's Dump" (2032) - Bill
November 30: MODERNIST MANIFESTOS - IMAGISM / VORTICISM / FUTURISM
T.E. Hulme, "Romanticism and Classicism" (2059)
F.S. Flint and Ezra Pound, "Imagisme" (2064)
Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" (2065)
T.E. Hulme, Pound, H.D., An Imagist Cluster (2068), Blast (2070-7)
Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto (link) - please print out and bring to class
December 5: THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP
Virginia Woolf, from Mrs. Dalloway (2155-2162 only); A Room of One's Own (2264) - Eileen
James Joyce, "Molly" from Ulysses (2474-80) - Octavia
December 7: COLONIAL LITERATURE
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (2604) - Mariah
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden (Vol. E, 1880) print out link so as not to carry 2 anthologies to class - Joseph
December 12: Modernist Conclusions & Final exam review
Check your email and fill out the Course Evaluation before it expires! A link should have been sent to you from the Vice Provost.
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2524) - Alia
W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts" (2685); Breugel's "The Fall of Icarus" (here)
Philip Larkin, "High Windows,""This Be The Verse" (2788) - Ashley D.
Bring your study guides and any questions you have for the final!
Papers are due on 12/12 (comments & feedback) or 12/19 (no comments, just grade).
DECEMBER 14: Extra review session (optional) at 3:30 pm
Final Exam on monday, december 19, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Note the later exam time at 1:30, not 12:30 pm.
Don't worry! Our ROMANTICISM page and VICTORIAN page are still available.
Victorian Study Guide - Modernism Study Guide
The date of our final exam is TBD. Some practice IDs are here.
C.R. W. Nevinson, "Returning to the Trenches" (1916)