MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CLS2530

Modernism in European literature

Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Synopsis A study of the modernist movement as a supra-national European cultural paradigm. The texts will cover the literatures of both Eastern and Western Europe, and will be studied in English translation, though they may be read in their original languages. The poetics of the various modernist `schools,' such as symbolism, futurism, expressionism and surrealism, will be studied in the context of the theory of the avant-garde and with reference to the major twentieth-century cultural paradigm shift from modernism to postmodernism.

Assessment Essay (3000 words): 45% + Class paper (1500 words): 25% + Test (1.5 hours): 30%

Prescribed texts

• Andric I The pasha's concubine and other tales Allen and Unwin
• Bely A Petersburg Indiana U P
• Bürger P Theory of the avant-garde Minnesota U P
• Chekhov A The Seagull (first act) OUP
• Gide A The counterfeiters Penguin
• Gerould D (ed.)Doubles, demons and dreamers: An international collection of symbolist drama Performing Arts Journal Public
• Hesse H Siddhartha Penguin
• Lawton A (ed.)Russian futurism through its manifestos, 1912-1928 Cornell U P
• Lange F Metropolis (constructivist film)
• Magritte R `Magritte' or `The Lesson of Objects' (film script) in Harry Torczyner's Magritte: Ideas and images Harry N Abrams Inc.
• Nietzsche F The birth of tragedy Pantheon
• Rilke R M The notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge OUP
• Tzara T Seven Dada manifestos and lampisteries Calder
• Vertov D Enthusiasm (constructivist film)
• Whitman W The complete poems Penguin
• Wilde O Salome Orbis
• Woolfe V To the lighthouse Vintage