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Literature since 1900 English 1300 A02 CRN: 10078/20066
Dr. Fernando de Toro
Office: Fletcher Argue Building Room 628
e-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 204-474-8141
Academic Term: Fall 2015
Time and Location: MWF 12:30-13:20 - TIER 312/Isbister 201
Office Hours: MWF 13:30-14:30
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fdetoro/1300/
I. Introduction
Twentieth-Century literature can be described in at least three very distinct temporal dimensions depending on their cultural practices.
First of all, Modernity, which, depending on the position one may take, begins at the end of the XIXth Century and ends just before the end of the first half of the XXth century.
Secondly, this first period is followed by a transition period which lasts until the first decade of the second half of the XXth Century.
I. Introduction
Thirdly, from the end of the 1960s Post-Modernity enters the artistic and cultural field which, in my estimation, ends towards the end of the XXth century.
The understanding of these three cultural manifestations, Modernity, the transition and Post-Modernity, is fundamental in order to situate the Modern and Post-Modern artistic practices within their proper context.
Literary works exist within a network of relationships, that is, they cannot be considered in isolation from other contemporaneous literary, cultural, and scientific practices.
I. Introduction
Culture is never divided, and the fact that the academia isolates and reduces cultural practices to a very narrow and vernacular perspectives does not mean that this is a reality.
In fact, the contrary is true: the Renaissance, the Baroque, Modernity, etc. had fundamentally shared epistemological foundations across the Western world: from Russia to Argentina, these practices had one, and one epistemological foundation alone in each given épistème.
I. Introduction
Thus, this is the approach we will take in the study of the works selected for this course, which will be carried out in conjunction with theory of literature, culture, and other artistic practices.
II. Method of Evaluation
A) Number of exams: 1
Date: April (to be announced in the final exam period)- 3 hrs examination. Value: 40%
B) Number of Assignments: 4
Dates, length and value:
1) October 30: A 700 word essay – 10% 2) November 30: A 900 word essay – 20% 3) February 29: A 700 word essay – 10% 4) April 8 A 900 word essay – 20%
III. Required Readings: Literature
Barnes, Julian. (1984). Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Jonathan Cape.
Beckett, Samuel. (1954). Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove Press.
Carter, Angela. (1979). The Bloody Chamber. New York: Harper & Row.
Coetzee, J.M. (1986). Foe. Toronto: Stoddart. Conrad, Joseph. (2007). Heart of Darkness. London:
Penguin Classics. Frost, Robert. (1986). “The Figure a Poem Makes”,
“Mending wall”, “After apple-picking”, “Departmental”. In Gary Geddes. (1986). 20th-Centwy Poetry & Poetics. 4th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
III. Required Readings: Literature
Ginsberg, Allen. (1986). "Footnote to Howl" and "Howl (I, II and III)." From Howl and Other Poems. In Gary Geddes. (1986). 20th-Centwy Poetry & Poetics. 4th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Arthur. (1977). Death of a Salesman. Text and Critics. Edited by Gerald Weales. New York: Penguin Books.
Morrison, Toni. (1982). Sula. New York: A Plume Book. Ondaatje, Michael. (1976). Coming through Slaughter.
Toronto: Anansi. Stoppard, Tom. (1967). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead. London and Boston: Faber and Faber.
III. Required Readings: Literature
van Herk, Aritha. (1990). Places far from Ellesmere. Red River, Alberta: Red Deer College Press.
Winterson, Jeanette. (1989). The Passion. New York: Vintage Books.
Woolf, Virginia. (2004). To the Lighthouse. London: Vintage Books.
IV. Reference: Required
Hacker, Diana. (1996). A Canadian Writer’s Reference. 2nd Edition. Scarborough: Nelson Canada.
V: Reading Schedule
FIRST TERM
September 11: Course Outline presentation September 14: Essay Writing / Notes / Bibliography September 16: Introduction to Literature in the 1990s September 18: Introduction to Literature in the 1990s September 21: Introduction to Literature in the 1990s September 23: Introduction to the Theatre of the Absurd September 25: Introduction to the Theatre of the Absurd September 28: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Video September 30: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Video October 2: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Text October 5: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Text October 7: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Text October 9: Robert Frost: “The Figure a Poem Makes” October 12: Thanksgiving Day October 14: Robert Frost: “Mending wall”, “After apple
picking”, “Departmental” October 16: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness October 19: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness October 21: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness October 23: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 26: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 28: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 30: Introduction to the Beat Generation October 30: First Paper November 2: Introduction to the Beat Generation November 4: Allen Ginsberg: “Notes for Howl and Other
Poems” / “Howl (I, II and III)” and November 6: Allen Ginsberg: “Notes for Howl and Other
Poems” / “Howl (I, II and III)” November 9: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Text November 11: Remembrance Day November 13: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Text November 16: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman –Text November 18: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 18: Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadline November 20: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 23: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 25: The Transition to Post-Modernity November 27: The Transition to Post-Modernity November 30: The Transition to Post-Modernity November 30: Second Paper December 2: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 4: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 7: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 9: Introduction to Post-Modernity Second Term January 6: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Text January 8: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Text January 11: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Text January 13: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Video January 15: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Video \ January 18: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern
are Dead – Video January 20: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 22: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 25: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 27: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot January 29: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot February 1: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot February 3: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 5: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 8: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 10: van Herk, Aritha: Places far from Ellesmere February 12: van Herk, Aritha: Places far from Ellesmere February 15-19 Mid-term break February 22: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 24: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 26: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 29: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion February 29: Third Paper March 2: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion March 4: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion March 7: Morrison and Feminism March 9: Morrison and Feminism March 11: Morrison and Feminism March 14: Barbara Smith: “Toward a Black Feminist
Criticism March 16: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 18: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 18: Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadline March 21: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 23: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 25: Post-Colonialism March 28: Post-Colonialism March 30: Post-Colonialism March 30: Fourth Paper April 1: John Coetzee Foe April 4: John Coetzee Foe April 6: John Coetzee Foe April 8: John Coetzee Foe
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE Standard Course Policies 1. VW Date: Last day for withdrawal from Fall, Winter
or Fall/Winter courses: March 18th 2. Attendance (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 7.1):
Regular attendance and participation are critical to student success. An instructor may initiate procedures to debar a student from attending classes and from final examinations and/or from receiving credit where unexcused absences exceed those permitted by the faculty or school regulations. A student may be debarred from class and examinations by action of the dean/director for persistent non-attendance or for failure to produce assignments to the satisfaction of the instructor. Students so debarred will have failed that course.
3. Plagiarism (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 8.1): To
plagiarize is to take ideas or words of another person and pass them off as one’s own. Plagiarism applies to any written work, in traditional or electronic format, as well as orally or verbally presented work. Students are expected to appropriately acknowledge the sources of ideas and expressions they use in their written work, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. This applies to diagrams, statistical tables and the like, as well as to written material, and materials or information from Internet sources. Plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations, term tests or academic work is subject to serious academic penalty.
The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism in a written
assignment, test, or examination is F on the paper and F for the course. For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as the purchase of an essay or cheating on a test or examination, the penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty. The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of being plagiarized, to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism. If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarized work please consult your instructor and Sections 8.1 of the Undergraduate Calendar.
4. Grade Appeals (Undergraduate Calendar, Section
6.1): Students are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the University's policy on grade appeals. The appeal of term work returned or made available to students before the last day of classes shall be subject to the policies and procedures established by faculty or school councils. If a student has good reason to believe a mistake has been made in the assessment of the original grade, an appeal of the assigned grade may be made. A student may enter an appeal, through the Registrar’s Office, for assessment of one or more grades following the posting of grades by the faculty/school/department.
5. Unclaimed Term Work: Any term work that has not
been claimed by students will be held for four (4) months from the end of the final examination period for the term in which the work was assigned. At the conclusion of this time, all unclaimed term work will be destroyed confidentially.
V: Reading Schedule
FIRST TERM
October 7: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Text October 9: Robert Frost: “The Figure a Poem Makes” October 12: Thanksgiving Day October 14: Robert Frost: “Mending wall”, “After apple
picking”, “Departmental” October 16: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness October 19: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness October 21: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
V: Reading Schedule
FIRST TERM
October 23: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 26: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 28: Virginia Wool: To the Lighthouse October 30: Introduction to the Beat Generation October 30: First Paper November 2: Introduction to the Beat Generation November 4: Allen Ginsberg: “Notes for Howl and Other
Poems” / “Howl (I, II and III)”
V: Reading Schedule
November 6: Allen Ginsberg: “Notes for Howl and Other
Poems” / “Howl (I, II and III)” November 9: Allen Ginsberg: “Notes for Howl and Other
Poems” / “Howl (I, II and III)”
November 11: Remembrance Day
November 13: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Text
November 16: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman –Text
November 18: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Text
V: Reading Schedule
November 20: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 23: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 25: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman – Video November 27: The Transition to Post-Modernity November 30: The Transition to Post-Modernity
November 30: Second Paper
V: Reading Schedule
November 30: The Transition to Post-Modernity December 2: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 4: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 7: Introduction to Post-Modernity December 9: Introduction to Post-Modernity
V: Reading Schedule
Second Term January 6: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Text January 8: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Text January 11: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Text January 13: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Video January 15: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Video\ January 18: Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead – Video
V: Reading Schedule
Second Term January 20: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 22: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 25: Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber January 27: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot January 29: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot February 1: Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot February 3: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 5: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 8: Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter February 10: van Herk, Aritha: Places far from Ellesmere February 12: van Herk, Aritha: Places far from Ellesmere
V: Reading Schedule
Second Term February 15-19 Mid-term break February 22: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 24: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 26: Feminism/ Post-Feminism February 29: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion
February 29: Third Paper March 2: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion March 4: Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion
V: Reading Schedule
Second Term March 7: Morrison and Feminism March 9: Morrison and Feminism March 11: Morrison and Feminism March 14: Barbara Smith: “Toward a Black Feminist
Criticism March 16: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 18: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 18: Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadline March 21: Toni Morrison’ Sula
V: Reading Schedule
Second Term March 23: Toni Morrison’ Sula March 25: Post-Colonialism March 28: Post-Colonialism March 30: Post-Colonialism March 30: Fourth Paper April 1: John Coetzee Foe April 4: John Coetzee Foe April 6: John Coetzee Foe April 8: John Coetzee Foe
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE Standard Course Policies 1. VW Date: Last day for withdrawal from Fall, Winter
or Fall/Winter courses: March 18th 2. Attendance (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 7.1):
Regular attendance and participation are critical to student success. An instructor may initiate procedures to debar a student from attending classes and from final examinations and/or from receiving credit where unexcused absences exceed those permitted by the faculty or school regulations. A student may be debarred from class and examinations by action of the dean/director for persistent non-attendance or for failure to produce assignments to the satisfaction of the instructor. Students so debarred will have failed that course.
3. Plagiarism (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 8.1): To
plagiarize is to take ideas or words of another person and pass them off as one’s own. Plagiarism applies to any written work, in traditional or electronic format, as well as orally or verbally presented work. Students are expected to appropriately acknowledge the sources of ideas and expressions they use in their written work, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. This applies to diagrams, statistical tables and the like, as well as to written material, and materials or information from Internet sources. Plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations, term tests or academic work is subject to serious academic penalty.
The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism in a written
assignment, test, or examination is F on the paper and F for the course. For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as the purchase of an essay or cheating on a test or examination, the penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty. The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of being plagiarized, to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism. If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarized work please consult your instructor and Sections 8.1 of the Undergraduate Calendar.
4. Grade Appeals (Undergraduate Calendar, Section
6.1): Students are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the University's policy on grade appeals. The appeal of term work returned or made available to students before the last day of classes shall be subject to the policies and procedures established by faculty or school councils. If a student has good reason to believe a mistake has been made in the assessment of the original grade, an appeal of the assigned grade may be made. A student may enter an appeal, through the Registrar’s Office, for assessment of one or more grades following the posting of grades by the faculty/school/department.
5. Unclaimed Term Work: Any term work that has not
been claimed by students will be held for four (4) months from the end of the final examination period for the term in which the work was assigned. At the conclusion of this time, all unclaimed term work will be destroyed confidentially.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
1. VW Date: Last day for withdrawal from Fall, Winter or Fall/Winter courses: March 18th
2. Attendance (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 7.1): Regular attendance and participation are critical to student success. An instructor may initiate procedures to debar a student from attending classes and from final examinations and/or from receiving credit where unexcused absences exceed those permitted by the faculty or school regulations.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
A student may be debarred from class and examinations by action of the dean/director for persistent non-attendance or for failure to produce assignments to the satisfaction of the instructor. Students so debarred will have failed that course.
3. Plagiarism (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 8.1): To plagiarize is to take ideas or words of another person and pass them off as one’s own.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
Plagiarism applies to any written work, in traditional or electronic format, as well as orally or verbally presented work. Students are expected to appropriately acknowledge the sources of ideas and expressions they use in their written work, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. This applies to diagrams, statistical tables and the like, as well as to written material, and materials or information from Internet sources. Plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations, term tests or academic work is subject to serious academic penalty.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism in a written assignment, test, or examination is F on the paper and F for the course. For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as the purchase of an essay or cheating on a test or examination, the penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty. The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of being plagiarized, to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarized work please consult your instructor and Sections 8.1 of the Undergraduate Calendar.
4. Grade Appeals (Undergraduate Calendar, Section 6.1): Students are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the University's policy on grade appeals. The appeal of term work returned or made available to students before the last day of classes shall be subject to the policies and procedures established by faculty or school councils.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
If a student has good reason to believe a mistake has been made in the assessment of the original grade, an appeal of the assigned grade may be made. A student may enter an appeal, through the Registrar’s Office, for assessment of one or more grades following the posting of grades by the faculty/school/department.
5. Unclaimed Term Work: Any term work that has not been claimed by students will be held for four (4) months from the end of the final examination period for the term in which the work was assigned.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FILM, and THEATRE
Standard Course Policies
At the conclusion of this time, all unclaimed term work will be destroyed confidentially.