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This course explores European literature through works from Norway to Italy and Russia to Germany, France and Portugal. The works will be read in English translation. The first tradition examined is the Fantastic genre, illustrated through stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mikhail Bulgakov. The second topic is the emergence of modernism, shown through poems by Baudelaire and the novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. The course concludes with poems by Fernando Pessoa and Italo Calvino's postmodern novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. The objective is to introduce the Fantastic and modernism traditions in European literature and issues of self-consciousness, social reality vs imagination, and the
This course explores European literature through works from Norway to Italy and Russia to Germany, France and Portugal. The works will be read in English translation. The first tradition examined is the Fantastic genre, illustrated through stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mikhail Bulgakov. The second topic is the emergence of modernism, shown through poems by Baudelaire and the novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. The course concludes with poems by Fernando Pessoa and Italo Calvino's postmodern novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. The objective is to introduce the Fantastic and modernism traditions in European literature and issues of self-consciousness, social reality vs imagination, and the
This course explores European literature through works from Norway to Italy and Russia to Germany, France and Portugal. The works will be read in English translation. The first tradition examined is the Fantastic genre, illustrated through stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mikhail Bulgakov. The second topic is the emergence of modernism, shown through poems by Baudelaire and the novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. The course concludes with poems by Fernando Pessoa and Italo Calvino's postmodern novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. The objective is to introduce the Fantastic and modernism traditions in European literature and issues of self-consciousness, social reality vs imagination, and the
This course explores two important traditions of European literature through a
selection of works that span the continent from north (Norway) to south (Italy) and east (Russia) to west (Germany, rance and !ortugal)" #ll texts, of course, will $e read in English translation" The first tradition we shall look at is the antastic, which might $e descri$ed as continental Europe%s counterpart to Gothic literature" The German Romantic antastic is illustrated $y the $est&known of E" T" #" 'offmann%s $i(arre and distur$ing tales, and the Russian genius for this genre, $y )ulgako*%s e+ually (any masterpiece in which the ,e*il arri*es in -talinist .oscow accompanied $y a retinue that includes a *ery mischie*ous cat """ /ur second topic is the lucidity with which early .odernist continental European writers explore the translation of *i*id personal experience into literature" # selection of )audelaire%s poems illustrates the origins of European .odernism" 'amsun%s short $ut powerful Hunger illustrates the $irth of the modern no*el" #nd we shall conclude with a selection of short texts $y ernando !essoa, one of the most extraordinary, $ut also one of most accessi$le poets of the twentieth century" The o$0ecti*e is to introduce these two influential continental European literary traditions, the tension they each exhi$it $etween a social reality and the reality of the imagination, the nature and implications of their concern with self& consciousness, and the redefinition of the scope and su$0ect of literature proposed $y each of our texts" /ur final text $rings all of these concerns together1 2al*ino%s playful postmodern no*el of 3454 is a$out the pro$lems of reading, writing, and the nature of literature that lie at the heart of this course" 1. Core Texts 6 7 to purchase1 a*aila$le at 8un Nan )ook -tore 'offmann 9The -andman% (3:3;) a*aila$le on ed*eNT<re )ulgako* 6 The Master and Margarita (34=>s?34;;) !icador 45:&>==>=@3=A: )audelaire selection of works (3:@5&;5) a*aila$le on ed*eNT<re 'amsun 6 Hunger (3:4>) 2anongate 45:&>:@5:;354@ !essoa selection of works (343>&34=>) a*aila$le on ed*eNT<re 2al*ino 6 If on a winters night a traveler (3454) Bintage 45:&>>44A=>:4; 2. Method of Instruction & Course ssess!ent Method of Instruction ssess!ent -eminar1 = hours per week 2ontinuous #ssessment1 C +ui((es1 C>D C short essays1 =>D inal Examination1 @>D Coordinator/Lecturer office roo! no. e"!ai# address ,r" Terence ,awson '--&>=&5A T,awsonEntu"edu"sg $roposed Lecture %chedu#e &ee' &ee' of: uthor Text 3 #ug" 3= Introductions To 'F=3> and to 'offmann C #ug" C> 'offmann 9The -andman%1 the trauma = #ug" C5 'offmann 9The -andman%1 the issues A -ept" = )ulgako* E31 The Master and Margarita1 the -atire @ -ept" 3> )ulgako* G31 The Master and Margarita1 !ilate ; -ept" 35 )audelaire -elected !oems1 -pleen and the Ideal 5 -ept" CA )audelaire GC1 !oems of the 2ity (ecess : /ct" : 'amsun Hunger 4 /ct" 3@ 'ari Raya 'a0i 3> /ct" CC !essoa -elected poems H2aeiro, ReisI 33 /ct" C4 !essoa -elected poems H2ampos, !essoaI 3C No*" @ 2al*ino EC1 If on a winters night a traveller 3= No*" 3C 2al*ino If on a winters night a traveller J 2onclusion (eco!!ended %econdar) Materia# udio"*isua# ,B,s, a*aila$le in .edia Resources )ortko, Bladimir Master i Margarita (TB&miniseries1 3> episodes x @C mins"K C>>@) (Russian, with English su$titles) E@5A:=; 'enning 2arlsen (dir") Hunger (33C minsK 34;:) F574858 Lan Troell (dir") Hamsun (3@A minsK 3445) (a film a$out 'amsun%s later lifeK Eng" -u$titles) +oo's 'offmann, E" T" #" antasy !ieces in 2allot%s .anner (344;) -andner, ,a*id The antastic1 # 2ritical Reader (C>>A) reud, -igmund The Uncanny (3434) Todoro*, T(*etan The Fantastic (345>) Lackson, Rosemary" Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion (34:3) Negus, Menneth !T!"! Hoffmann#s $ther %orld& the 'omantic "uthor and His (ew Mythology (34;@) )ergstrom, -tefan )etween 'eal and Unreal: " Thematic Study of !T!"! Hoffmann#s *+ie Sera,ionsbruder (C>>>) )rown, 'ilda ." ! T! "! Hoffmann and the Sera,iontic -rinci,le: .riti/ue and .reativity (C>>;) Nright, #" 2" Mi0hail )ulga0ov (3454) Nato*, Nadine Mi0hail )ulga0ov (34:@) .ilne, Fesley, ed" )ulga0ov: The (ovelist1-laywright (344;) )en0amin, Nalter The %riter of Modern Life: ssays on .harles )audelaire (C>>;) !eyre, 'enri, ed" )audelaire: " .ollection of .ritical ssays (34;=) 'yslop, Fois )oe .harles )audelaire 'evisited (344C) Floyd, Rosemary )audelaire#s %orld (C>>C) Floyd, Rosemary, ed" The .ambridge .om,anion to )audelaire (C>>;) -anyal, ,e$arati The 2iolence of Modernity: )audelaire& Irony& and the -olitics of Form (C>>;) 'amsun, Mnut 3nut Hamsun 'emembers "merica: ssays and Stories& 455614787, ed" R" N" 2urrent (C>>=) Fyngstad, -*erre 3nut Hamsun& (ovelist: " .ritical "ssessment (C>>@) !essoa, ernando " Little Larger Than the ntire Universe: Selected -oems (tr" Oenith, C>>;) !essoa, ernando Fernando -essoa 9 .o!: Selected -oems (tr" Oenith, 3444) .arkey, 2onstance Italo .alvino: " :ourney Toward -ostmodernism (3444) )loom, 'arold (ed") Italo .alvino (C>>>) )olongaro, Eugenio Italo .alvino and the .om,ass of Literature (C>>=)