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This course will be dedicated to the years 1900 to 1930, which produced a new movement in the various arts (literature, painting, music, dance) that was international in scope and that is still influential today. This period saw a number of fundamental changes in the political, social and cultural fields. It covers World War I and its aftermath; it was a time when traditional values were questioned, when gender relations were renegotiated and concepts of femininity and masculinity redefined, when new findings in psychology fostered a marked interest in the workings of the individual consciousness, and when the nature of reality itself was under severe scrutiny. And it was a time marked by considerable literary innovations. Virginia Woolf, one of the prime representatives of Modernism, claimed that a new vision of life required new forms of literary expression. We will explore these issues by analysing a variety of sources, e.g. fiction, poetry, essays, philosophical and psychological texts, and paintings.N.B.: Number of particpants limited to 30. Registration via e-mail: eveline.kilian@rz.hu-berlin.de Please buy and read the following texts: T.S. Eliot, The Waste LandJames Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD.H. Lawrence, Sons and LoversMay Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriett FreanRebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway
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