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In this seminar, we will first discuss the movement of modernism in general, which manifested itself in numerous artistic and intellectual domains at the beginning of the twentieth century. We will then closely read and contextualise two of the most canonical modernist texts in English literature. Since its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land has come to be considered by many as the epitome of modernist poetry. Among other features, the poem’s many intertextual references and its demanding multiplicity, which can also be read as fragmentariness, have come to be considered as modernist. In Mrs Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf follows her heroine Clarissa through one day. In a writing style that is markedly different from other novels written at the time, Mrs Dalloway gives its readers insights into Clarissa’s inner thoughts and into British upper and middle-class society after the First World War.
At the end of the seminar, we will discuss the 1997 film version of Mrs Dalloway (dir. Marleen Gorris) and, if we still have the time, the 2002 film The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry).
Texts:
Both texts are available in one volume, in edited and commented versions:
T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land. In: Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth Edition. Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. New York: Norton, 2018. 660-673. ISBN 978-0-393-60307-1
Virgina Woolf. Mrs Dalloway. In: Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth Edition. Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. New York: Norton, 2018. 284-392. |
