ENGL 563

Spring 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 4

Seminar Themes and Movements

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of graduate study of literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 563 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39300	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	English Building	Newcomb, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Modern Lit & the Metropolis Section Info: Topic Section E: Modern Literature and the Metropolis This course will examine how the growth of the industrial metropolis, as both physical space and social environment, shaped the successive emergence of two dominant paradigms of modern literature, realism and modernism. We’ll use work by theorists of urban modernity (Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Marshall Berman, David Harvey) to frame key questions for a cultural history of metropolitan modernity, such as: •how did material alterations in urban space create new forms of experience, and new interactions among genders, races, classes, nationalities? •What were the meanings of the changing relationship of work-space to home-space, and public space to private space? •How did the late-19th-century emergence of metropolitan consumer culture (commodity fetishism, advertising, collecting, market research, conspicuous consumption), inflect modern literature? We’ll test these questions and others against a variety of literary responses to modernization, concentrating on American texts produced between 1840 and 1940. Among the authors featured will be Poe, Melville, Whitman, Chopin, Crane, Eliot, Millay, McKay, Larsen, Hughes, Williams, and Sandburg. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.