ENGL 543

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Seminar Mod British Lit

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of modern British studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 543 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30195	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	English Building	Gaedtke, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: The Minds of Modernism Section Info: Topic Section R: The Minds of Modernism This seminar will examine the conceptual and rhetorical exchanges that occurred between modernist literature and the mind sciences. We will consider the influences that early psychiatry, neurology, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, phenomenology, and various forms of pseudo-science had upon modern British and Irish fiction. Conversely, we will ask how those literary experiments exerted critical pressure on these new sciences and participated in a discursive contest to redefine “the mind.” Along the way we will consider the roles that forms of psychopathology, trauma, disability, and cognitive disorder played in the construction of the “normal” mind. We will also examine recent critical approaches that draw upon cognitive frameworks in order to re-evaluate the famous “inward turn” that distinguished modernist fiction, and we will examine the ways that modernist conceptions of the mind were extended through brain, body, narrative, and world. While gaining knowledge of modernist formal experimentation, students will also develop strategies for conceptualizing discursive points of contact between literature and the sciences. Readings will include works by Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Mina Loy, Sigmund Freud, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.