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“Dare to know.”

~Horace~ A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE PRIMARY FOCUS EARLY-TO-MID 20TH CENTURY: MODERNITY Beginner Intermediate Advanced AND THE MIND T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 Alan Paton 1903-1988 James Joyce 1882-1941 The Wasteland and Other Cry, The Beloved Country A Portrait of the Artist as a Poems James Joyce 1882-1941 Young Man D. H. Lawrence 1885- Dubliners Dubliners An exploration of how modernist writers reject 1930 T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 literary convention in an effort to capture an au- from Selected Short Stories The Wasteland and Other To the Light House thentic portrayal of their socio-historic moment “The Rocking-Horse Poems Mrs. Dalloway as well as to better represent the complexities Winner” Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 A Room of One’s Own of the psyche and the individual. James Joyce 1882-1941 “The Mark On the Wall” T.S. Eliot 1888-1965 from Dubliners The Wasteland and Other “Araby” Poems George Orwell 1903- Thomas Mann 1875-1955 1950 Death in Venice from A Collection of Essays “Shooting an Elephant”

LEXIS GUIDE arborescent alienation Aesthetes anamnesis aesthetic conscious authorial voice consumerism Bloomsbury Group objective correlative canonical discourse FURTHER EXPLORATION Carl Jung engram collective unconscious external POETRY Rainer Maria Rilke 1875- ESSAYS stream of consciousness free verse 1926 hierarchical intelligible Lisel Mueller 1924- “A Walk” “Why We’re Still hyperbole internal “Monet Refuses the Op- “Love Song” Struggling to Make Sense Jacques Lacan materialism eration” “Autumn Day” of Modernism”—Michael linear modernism Ezra Pound 1885-1972 Basil Bunting 1900-1985 Levenson, The Atlantic Oct New Criticism monologue “In the Station of a “On the Fly Leaf of 2013 non-linear mood Metro” Pound’s Cantos” “The Unsaid: The Si- phenomenology psyche “A Girl” “Gin the Goodwife Stint” lence of Virginia Woolf”— psychoanalysis Russian Revolution “A Pact” Dylan Thomas 1914-1953 Hisham Matar, The New regionalism sensible Yorker Federico García Lorca “Do Not Go Gentle into 10 Nov 2014 Sigmund Freud Self 1898-1936 that Good Night” “It Is and It Isn’t”—Da- unconscious Aeon “The City that Does Not “Clown in the Moon” mon Young, 22 Sept Sleep” “A Refusal to Mourn the 2016 “Is It OK to Make “Gacela of the Dark Death, by Fire, of a Child in Art?” Death” London” —Rhys Southan, Aeon “Gacela of Unforeseen 20 March 2014 Love” SHORT “Eye Candy”—Mohan STORIES Matthen, Aeon 24 March 2014 E. M. Forster 1879-1970 “Beauteous Beasts”— “The Machine Stops” Emily Anthes, Aeon 25 Viriginia Woolf 1882-1941 March 2013 “The Haunted House” “Beauty ≠ Truth”—Phil- ip Ball, Aeon 19 May 2014 “How Physics and Maths Helped Create Modernist Painting”— Lynn Gamwell, Aeon 23 March 2016 EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY: STUDENT GUIDE

MODERNITY AND THE MIND A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE

ASSIGNMENTS

Key questions:

“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.”

BASE GOALS ~Sigmund Freud~

outline the historical moment of the event. answer key questions. study prose and poetry. define and synthesize the selected lexis. state dates of publication and events. annotate the required texts. summarize and analyze texts. formulate a position and support it. plan, produce, proofread, and revise an argument. relate the event to prior knowledge. relate the event to the real world.