Why study E M Forster’s fiction in a Master of Education course? Writing from the early twentieth century well into the 1950s, this canonical writer offers so much to pursue, both in terms of his subject matter and his techniques of writing. As such, his writing covers and invites us to reflect upon diverse issues such as the experience and aesthetics of modernity, imagining the future (Forster penned the dystopian short story The Machine Stops [1909], which has made it into school teaching), youthful political enthusiasm vs. the social establishment, England vs. Europe, imperial and colonial identities, homosexuality, and more.
With plenty of opportunity to pay attention to methodological issues and questions of school teaching potential, we will discuss in detail, The Machine Stops (https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and finally, extracts from Maurice (1971). (We will sort out the reading load in the first week of term.)
Please note that you will have to obtain your own copies of the novels.
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