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This course aims at exploring the cultural production of art and literature during the turbulent decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Apart from well-known writers, such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Ezra Pound, there was a host of other writers and artists who sought to encounter and shape the vast social and political transformations under way in Europe, such as the Great War, social reforms, suffrage, rise of fascism - just to name a few. Countless little publishing houses, galleries, magazines and journals (especially in London) were engaged in numerous debates, associations and conflicts to approach more experimental ways of creating poetry, prose, journalism, sculpture, dance, music and to reassess the position of artists in a transforming society. Besides closely reading the primary texts, we will look at the collaboration of painting and literature, at the conditions of publishing and being published, and also at how different writers negotiate categories of form, narrative subjectivity, and materiality.
Participants are required to attend regularly and actively contribute, as well as hand in assignments or give in-class presentations.
A reader with poetry , essays and secondary texts for the seminar will be available at the beginning of April.
As a preparation for the seminar, please acquire copies of the following texts:
Virginia. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, (1927), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
Ford Madox Huefer (later Ford), Some do not..., in: Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End.(1924), Introd. by Max Saunders, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2011. (all four parts of Parade's End)
Wyndham Lewis, Tarr (1918), Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2010.
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