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1922 is an extraordinary year in the history of Anglo-Irish and European Literature, with James Joyce's novel Ulysses, T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room, and Katherine Mansfield's short story collection The Garden Party, all paradigmatic modernist texts in their respective genres, published (as well as Rainer Maria Rilke's Duineser Elegien, Franz Kafka's Das Schloss, Marcel Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe [the middle volume of his monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu]). In the seminar, we will read key texts published in 1922 to gain an understanding of what the revolutionary shift that modernist aesthetic innovation has meant, and still means, for literature. We will start with Joyce's Ulysses and spend roughly half of the semester with the novel before engaging with further texts. I suggest you buy the Oxford World's Classics edition of Ulysses, ISBN-13: 978-0192855107 (ca. 11 €). There are plenty of helpful guides around. As a first approach, I recommend Patrick Hasting's "Guide to help you read James Joyce's Ulysses" (https://www.ulyssesguide.com). |
