Questions:
How does art and culture at the turn of the century differ from that of the nineteenth century?
What are the dominant themes and topics of art and culture during this period?
what is the relationship between art and life as reflected by the works of this period
Using the texts from Proust and Joyce, how does their work reflect the themes and approaches of the pre-1914 period?
How is their work challenging literary forms?
Key Readings:
C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914, Blackwells, 2009, ch. 10: ‘The World of the Arts and the Imagination’, pp. 366-392
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875-1914, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ch. 9 “The Arts Transformed”
Malcolm Bradbury, Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
Read the following texts:
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. Volume 1: Swann’s Way: (trans C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin). (New York: Vintage). pp. 48-51.
https://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/proust.html
James Joyce, Ulysses – see Molly’s monologue – the final section of the book
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