The Twentieth Century and After (Norton Introduction, 1887-1913)
Week 7, The Turn of the Century: From Realism to Modernism; Modern Fiction
- Virginia Woolf, ‘Modern Fiction’ (2150-55),
- James Joyce, From Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2313-14)
- D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Odor of Chrysanthemums’ (2483-96)
Week 8, Modernist Poetry
- T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (2554)
- William Butler Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’ (2093), ‘The Second Coming’ (2099), ‘Leda and the Swan’ (2102)
Week 9, The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing (1/2)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, From ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (217-39)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, ‘The Other Side of a Mirror’ (1849-50)
- Virginia Woolf, From ‘A Room of One’s Own’, (2264-72), ‘Professions for Women’ (2272-76)
Week 10, The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing (2/2)
- G. B. Shaw, ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’
- Week 11 Postcolonial Englishness – Hybrid Identities & Cultures
- George Orwell, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ (2605-10)
- Grace Nicols, ‘The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping’ (2751)
- Wole Soyinka, ‘Telephone Converstion’ (2736)
- Derek Walcot, ‘A Far Cry from Africa’ (2801-02)
Week 12, Postmodernism
- Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’ [Supplement]
- Margaret Atwood, ‘Happy Endings’ [Supplement]
- From Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Introduction
Week 13, Students’ Presentations
