Dr. Simone Heller-Andrist Bachelor Seminar Modernism Imports: Foreign Cultural Heritage in English Modernist Poetry HS 2012 Date, Session Topic Contents, Primary Texts Reading Assignments Theory [recommended], *Downloads # Time Info Participants: Programme, Course Guidelines, OLAT, 1 Sep 21 Modernism: Introduction Who Is Who *William Carlos Williams “A Sort of Song” *James Longenbach “Modern Poetry” (Cambridge Companion Assign Presentations, How to Do a Presentation, Thesis to Modernism 2nd ed.) Statement; Literary Criticism Theorizing Modernist Poetry: *Chris Baldick “Modern Poetry” (The Modern Movement) 2 Sep 28 *John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” Innovation versus Continuation *Philip Tew and Alex Murray “Modernity and Modernism” *Thomas Hardy “The Darkling Thrush” (The Modernism Handbook) *Robert Frost “Come In” [*Randall Jarrell “The End of the Line” (1942)] *Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery “Innovations in 3 Oct 5 Modernist Poetry: Innovations *e.e. cummings “Thrushes” Poetry” (The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms) *William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” and *Glen Macleod “Modernism and the Visual Arts” (Cambridge *Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of the Jar” and Duchamp’s Companion to Modernism 2nd ed.) 4 Oct 12 Visual Arts and Poetry Readymades: What Is Art? *Sarah Victoria Turner “Modernism and the Visual Arts” *W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” (The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms) *William Carlos Williams “From Pictures from Brueghel” *Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro” *David Ian Patty “The City,” Gary Day “The City and *William Carlos Williams “The Great Figure” Human Character” (The Modernism Handbook) 5 Oct 19 The (Foreign) City in Poetry *Charles Demuth The Figure 5 in Gold *Scott McCracken “Imagining the Modernist City” (The *F. S. Flint “I [London]” (Des Imagistes) Oxford Handbook of Modernisms) *F. S. Flint “III [City Rush]” (Des Imagistes) *Ramsay Burt “Dancing Bodies and Modernity” (The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms) *Daniel Albright “Musical Motives in Modernism” From Bach to Schubert to Igor Stravinsky Le sacre du 6 Oct 26 Music and Rhythm (Cambridge Companion to Modernism 2nd ed.) printemps (The Rite of Spring) *Werner Wolf Introduction to The Musicalization of Fiction and “Modernism as the First Climax in the History of Attempts of a Musicalization of Fiction” *William Carlos Williams “Portrait of a Lady” 7 Nov 2 (Post)-Impressionism *Max Saunders “Literary Impressionism” *Ezra Pound “Portrait d’une Femme” 8 Nov 9 Loose-Ends Session 9 Nov 16 Imagism *H. D. “Hermes of the Ways” (Des Imagistes) *Amy Lowell from “Preface to Some Imagist Poets 1915” (in A September 2012 *Amy Lowell “In a Garden” (Des Imagistes) Modernist Reader, 53–55) *Allen Upward “The Gold Fish” (Des Imagistes) *Ezra Pound from “’A Retrospect’ 1918” (in A Modernist Reader, 59–71; short reading 59–61) *Yuejun Zhang American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter? (publication: October 16, 2012) *Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro” (rep.) *Richard A. Iadonisi “Amy Lowell and the Gendered *Ezra Pound “Fan-Piece for Her Imperial Lord” (Des 10 Nov 23 Asian Culture: Japanese Haiku Aesthetics of Haiku” (A [Blackwell] Companion to Modernist Imagistes) Literature and Culture) *Ezra Pound “Ts’ai Chi’h” Assignment Short Course Evaluation How to Write a Paper: Short Introduction *Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Antiquity and ‘Primitivism’: 11 Nov 30 *H. D. “Wine Bowl” Music (excerpt and introduction) Greece, Rome and Egypt *H. D. From The Walls Do Not Fall *T. S. Eliot “Ulysses, Order, and Myth,” 1923 *Richard Aldington “In the Via Sestina” (Des Imagistes) *Michael Bell “Primitivism: Modernism as Anthropology” (The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms) *T. S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 1919 T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (excerpt) 12 Dec 7 Heritage in The Waste Land Bible, Antiquity, Indian Heritage, Arthurian Legend *Jeannette Baxter: Case Studies: “T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land” *Ezra Pound “The Game of Chess” (1922) (The Modernism Handbook) *Andrea Zemgulys “In London with a Baedeker: Touring T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land” (Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage) Forster, E. M. A Room with a View and “A View without a 13 Dec 14 Italy in E. M. Forster Room” 14 Dec 21 Conclusion September 2012 *Texts marked with an asterisk (*) will be made available on the OLAT platform. (https://www.olat.uzh.ch; instructor: heller). Bibliography Primary Sources Aldington, Richard, H. D., F. S. Flint et al. Des Imagistes: An Anthology. New York: Ams, 1914. Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Michael North. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 2001. Forster, E. M. A Room with a View. Ed. Oliver Stallybrass. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 1986. Secondary Sources Baldick, Chris. The Modern Movement. The Oxford English Literary History Vol. 10 1910–1940. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Bradshaw, David and Kevin J. H Dettmar, eds. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 39. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. Blackwell Reference Online. 31 August 2012 <http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/book?id=g9780631204350_9780631204350>. Brooker, Peter et al., eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. “The Cambridge Companion to Modernism: 2nd Edition.” The Cambridge Companion to Modernism: 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press. 04 September 2012 <http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=29174/extract?id=ccol9781107010635_CCOL9781107010635_root>. Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” 1919. Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot. Ed. Frank Kermode. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 37–44. Faulkner, Peter, ed. A Modernist Reader: Modernism in England 1910–1930. London: Batsford, 1986. Hampson, Robert and Will Montgomery. “Innovations in Poetry.” The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Ed. Peter Brooker et al. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. 63-84. Iadonisi, Richard A. “Amy Lowell and the Gendered Aesthetics of Haiku.” Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 35: 1–2 (2006): 119–131. Jarrell, Randall. “The End of the Line [1942].” Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews 1935–1964. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. 76–83. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. Trans. Shaun Whiteside. Ed. Michael Tanner. London: Penguin, 1993. Saunders, Max. “Literary Impressionism.” A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Ed. David Bradshaw, and Kevin J. H Dettmar. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 39. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. 204–211. Blackwell Reference Online. 31 August 2012 <http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/uid=1223/tocnode?id=g9780631204350_chunk_g978063120435023>. Tew, Philip and Alex Murray, ed. The Modernism Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. London: Continuum, 2009. Wolf, Werner. The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. Zemgulys, Andrea. Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. Course Requirements: regular attendance (not more than two absences), active participation in classroom discussion. 3 KP: presentation with handout; arrange for an appointment 2 weeks prior to your presentation; your handout must be ready on Monday prior to your presentation 6 KP: paper, between 4000 and 5000 words in length (deadline January 18, 2013) September 2012 .