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1 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLSH CENTRAL UNERSTY OF JAMMU Semester: Third Course Title: Twentieth Century Literature Course Code: MECL 301 Course Objective: This course is designed to acquaint students with the major twentieth century writers; to situate Modernism within its socio-politico-historical context; to familiarize students with Modernists ideals and their implication in literature; to explore transition from ictorian to the Modern; to acquaint students with concepts of Modernism and Postmodernism. Teacher n-charge: Raj Gaurav erma Harpreet Kour (Unit ) Unit The Context of Modernism: Relating ndustrial Revolution/Darwinian Theory of Evolution/ Scientific Revolution/ ictorian Period and the Period of Transition (Pre-Raphaelites) Edwardian Period Georgian Period The Era of World War: The Coming of Modernism-Modern and Modernist Modernism -Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane Social, Political, Historical Context of Modernism Predicament of Modern Man (Breaking ties with religion, nature, and traditional structures existing in society Movements in Modernism: Futurism, Dadaism, Cubism, Symbolism, magism Movements in Modernism:

2 Expressionism, mpressionism, Realism, Surrealism, Naturalism Features of Modernism: Literature/Art/ Architecture W.B. Yeats: A Biographical Note The Features of Yeats Poetry: Context of the World War The Second Coming - Harbinger of Modernism Second Coming Easter 1916 Easter 1916 : Yeats Nationalism Easter 1916 : Themes of death, destruction and futility of war Lapis Lazuli : Yeats theory of poetry/mmortality of art/comparison with Keats/Tragedy and Comedy/ Art as a constructive Force Lapis Lazuli Lapis Lazuli : Yeats theory of poetry/comparison with Keats Sailing to Byzantium : Discussion on the Text Sailing to Byzantium Sailing to Byzantium : Yeats Classicism/ Comparison with Keats Ode to a Nightingale Symbolism in Yeats Poetry

3 W. H. Auden: Biographical Note/ Auden as a Modern Poet 1 September 1939 : Context of the World War 1 September 1939 : Theme/ Structure/ Technique- Social, Political, Geographical, Historical and Literary Significance of the Poem 1 September 1939 : of the Text 1 September 1939 : of the Text (Continued) n Memory of W.B. Yeats : Context of the poem/ Feature and Structure of Elegy / nnovation in this form n Memory of W.B. Yeats : A Way to Create Space in Literary Tradition/ Personal/Professional/National/Universal Loss. n Memory of W.B. Yeats : Part One n Memory of W.B. Yeats : Part Two Test UNT Eliot and Modernism The

4 Eliot s Theory of Poetry: Tradition and ndividual Talent Dissociation of Sensibility: Unified Sensibility- Shift towards Metaphysical, Anti-romantic, Use of ntellect: Metaphysical Poets The Wasteland: Context and Publication and Epigraph The Wasteland: The Era of Modernity, Spiritual nfertility (Fertility Myths) Wasteland Norton Critical Edition Tradition and ndividual Talent The Wasteland: ntertextuality and Complexity (Polyglot Technique) Tiresias: Myths, Role and Significance (An Objective Correlative) The loss of human values: The Burial of the Death Artificiality, Promiscuity and Modern Relationships: A Game of Chess Decadence and Destruction in Nature and Man: The Fire Sermon X Metaphors of Death- Death by Water Redemption: Underlying Philosophy in The Thunder Said The Wasteland as a Modern Text Features of Eliot s Poetry: A Revision Eliot and Yeats: A Comparison of their Classicism Harpreet Kour

5 X Unit ntroduction to Modern Age The Technique of Modern fiction Social Milieu and Literary Tendencies Twentieth Century British Literature: A Reference Guide.1968 irginia Woolf: Life and Works Mrs.,Oxford University Press History of Psychological and Stream of Consciousness Novel ntroduction of Mrs. X The Great War, Modernism and Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. X and Explanation of Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. and Explanation of Mrs. Theme of Mrs. Analysis of Major characters

6 X Mid-Sem Mid-Sem Mid-Sem Mid-Sem Mid-Sem X Unit Existentialism- A Modern Philosophy Existentialists Philosophers: Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Tenets of Existential Philosophy: The Myth of the Sisyphus- Albert Camus Absurdity Literature of the Absurd: The Myth of the Sisyphus Samuel Becket and The Theatre of Absurd X Waiting for Godot: As an Absurd Play. No Plot. No Character. Significance of the Stage Setting: A Road and a Tree Characterization: ladimir, Estragon, Lucky and Pozzo ACT - ACT - Existentialism -Jean Paul Sarte Comparing Act and Act The Life of

7 X Filling the Time between Life and Death: Act and Act - Repetition and Recollection Themes in the Play: Meaninglessness, Nostalgia for Past, Waiting Postmodernism: A Shift from Modernity Waiting for Godot: Play between Modernity and Postmodernity Galileo X Unit Epic Theatre Brechtian Theory: An ntroduction (erfremdungseffekt) The Life of Galileo as an Epic Theatre The Life of Galileo: Summary and Context Galelio: As Objective Correlative for the Contemporary Situation X DAY/WEEK Title of the Topic to be Taught History of Changes of Brecht s Galileo Elements of Carnivalesque Characterization in The Life of Galileo Structure of the Play: And the Defamiliarizing Effect Thematic Analysis: The Conflict between Knowledge and Morality, State, Society and ndividual, Science and Religion.

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