| Abstract: |
Aims Virginia Woolf stated that "in or about December, 1910, human character changed. " This thought-provoking assertion links together the two central concerns of this course: modernism, and the World War One. If human character changed, art did so also, and perhaps equally if not more radically. Through reading across genres, poetry, prose, and drama, we will come to an understanding of this tragic, enthralling, and complex period of human and literary history. This course therefore focuses on responses to and representations of the Great War. Once completed this course, the student will achieve an academic understanding of the following subjects. The representation of war. "The Pity of War" Heroism The birth and extension of modernism. Modernism, war and gender. |
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