The Modernist era 

Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)

Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)


NOVEMBER 23: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Draft your paper (Paper topics here)

Bring Anthology F next week


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)

C.R. W. Nevinson, "Returning to the Trenches" (1916)