Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ΛΕ18) -  Χρυσή Μαρίνου

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The course examines modernism in British fiction (short stories and novels) through the works of E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys that span the period 1904-1934. Contesting realism and victorian conventions, the modernist novel defined the development of contemporary literature. In endorsing avant-guard tendencies and challenging social certainties, modernist authors ushered a novel, revolutionary aesthetics that attempted to embody the contradictions of culture, the anxieties of the modern subject, the feeling of alienation, decay and psychological sterility brought about by industrialisation, consumer culture, and war. How do these narratives represent the experience of the human subject—what Thomas Hardy termed “the ache of the modern”? Special attention is paid to women writers as innovators and pioneers of fiction and literary theory who helped shape modernism itself. Narrative techniques such as stream of consciousness, epiphany, fragmentation, and non-linear narration will be specifically discussed. Through their distinct stylistic experiments, modernist authors introduce a radical content and form that express and reflect the first half of the twentieth century. Novels, short stories, and theoretical essays will be critically examined in constant dialogue with the historical and socio-economic context.

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Παρασκευή 4 Οκτωβρίου 2024