Topics in Modern/Contemporary British Literature I - Woolf, Eliot, Shakespeare
- ENGL 200 / 6.0
- ENGL 290 / 3.0
- A minimum GPA of 2.3 in 9.0 units of ENGL
Texts will likely include
- Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and A Room of One’s Own
- T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land
- Shakespeare’s The Tempest, King Lear, and Hamlet.
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) were experimental avant-garde modernist writers who changed ideas both about what could be written about and how one could write. At the same time, Woolf and Eliot include explicit traces from a wide range of prior literature through their generous use of intertextuality, allusion, echo, and pastiche. One of the foremost presences in both of their works is William Shakespeare. Together we will read a range of works by all three writers, keeping in mind Eliot's compelling claim that we are not only changed by history, but that history is also, by necessity, "altered" by each present generation: “the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.”
**This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
About Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once.
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Assessments
Grading Components
- engaged participation and attendance
- group presentation
- memorization and recitation of a short passage
- quizzes
- exam
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