The overall goal of this course is to equip you with techniques for and practice in reading and responding critically to a variety of forms of literature. We will read a wide variety of literary texts, ranging from poetry to prose to drama, and from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. The texts that we will read are all in some way or another concerned with the idea of change. Thus, modernization, alienation and dislocation will be key themes for our course. While we will seek to appreciate these novels on their own terms, we will also attempt to put them into conversation with one another along the way. We will begin with E.M. Forster's novel Howard's End, and from there we will move on to novels by Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf, stopping along the way to read prose selections by or about some of these authors. After having spent a good deal of time with these novels, we will read poetry and prose selections from Eliot, Pound and Stein. Finally, we will end the quarter with plays by Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett. This course satisfies the University's W-requirement and as such, students will be responsible for writing and revising two 5-7 page papers. Additionally, students will be responsible for one group presentation.

E.M. Forster - Howard's End
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Thomas Hardy- Jude the Obscure
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock*
Ezra Pound - The Cantos -- selections*
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons -- selections*
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

*A (required) course pack will be available at Ave Copy.