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LEM2018 - Longas Narrativas em Inglês II / The Modern English Novel Dr. Bruce Stewart DLLEM / CCHLA / UFRN
Professor in English Literature & Language
Reader Emeritus in English /
Ulster U (UK)
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This page is designed to deliver texts for use in the study of the Modern English Novel at UFRN (LEM2018). As far as possible digital copies of texts - both original (novels) and commentary (criticism) - will be supplied here. Probably it is best for each student to access a copy of the novel in question using their own funds and ingenuity - i.e., either in Kindle, Gutenberg, Internet Archives or free at another site on Internet. Many of the copies given here are comprised of extracts selected and arranged for teaching purposes only. The text are also available through the relevant pages of my semester timetable in SIGAA.
Exercises and tests used for Course Evaluation (avaliação) are also lodged here and can be accessed and downloaded at any point in the present or the future. If any changes are applied to these in the way of change of plan, editing or or textual correction, these will be applied to the pages on this index as soon as possible but it should be understood that the SIGAA version always has priority. Most of the materials given here will be - or will have been - added progressively as the semester advances. This reflects the fact that the present semester (2021.2) is the first time I have taught this course, having undertaken to do so at the beginning of the recent 4-week vacation (huh!) in our irregular three-semester year during the Covid pandemic. If you have any queries or requests relating to these materials, please use my email at bstewart@ricorso.net.
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Textual Resources (by authors of novels) |
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| James Joyce |
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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) |
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Joyce’s autobiographical novel revolutionised modern fiction by introducing styles modelled to stages of development of the character using symbolist methods of writing. His use of the term ‘soul’ thoughout the novel reflects a vital shift in meaning .. |
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A Portrait - Scenes of Infancy & Boyhood (Chap 1)
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Joyce’s stylistic originality shows itself on the very first page with a brilliant account of the sensorium of the infant and the child .. |
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A Portrait - Christmas Dinner Scene (Chap 1)
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Joyce’s father was devoted to the Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell who was rejected by the Catholic Church when his affair with Mrs Kitty O'Shea was publicised in a famous divorce action ... |
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A Portrait - Stephen's Dedalus's Artistic Baptism (Chap 4) |
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Stephen finds himself infatuated with the vision of a girl wading at the seaside and encounters the artistic ambitions in himself which have been growing in him since childhood. The coincidence between puberty and aesthetic feeling cannot be overlooked. |
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A Portrait - Aesthetic theory of James Joyce (Chap 5) |
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As a university student Joyce attempted to combine the scholastic philosophy he had learned from his Jesuit educators with the realist outlook which he acquired from his wide readings in modern European fiction - with Flaubert, Ibsen, and Hegel as his chief guides. |
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Stephen Hero (written 1904-07; publ. from remnant, 1944) |
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Stephen Hero (1904-07; publ. 1944) - an autobiographical novel - was radically revised to make A Portrait. See what the young Joyce thought of himself as a budding artist .. |
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Joyce’s theory of Epiphanies in SH, AP and Finnegans Wake |
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Joyce coined the term ‘epiphany’ which is almost universally used today for a sudden insight into some matter of human significance - very different from ‘Eureka’ which is associated with Archimedes ... |
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Joyce’s Opinions: Various Quotations |
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Joyce wrote copious letters and his conversation was recorded by several persons - resulting in a rich treasury of attitudes and opinions - though less about the world in his time than his own works. |
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| [ A complete copy of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be found in RICORSO Library - online. See also Rapid-Read Ulysses - below. ] |
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| George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) |
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George Orwell, 1984 (1949) |
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A downloadable full-text edition of the Nineteen Eighty-Four ... |
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Short Quotations from 1984 (1949) |
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A selection of shorter quotations from Book Riot - online. |
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Longer Extracts [three episodes]
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In contrast with his sensitive conversations with his lover (Julia), Winston's exchanges with his Truth Ministry colleague (Syme) and the chief of the Thought Police (O'Brien) are filled with ideological absurdity and terror ... |
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Jesse Matz, Modern English Novel [extracts on Orwell] |
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Matz tackles the question whether a political forecast of this kind can be a novel - and what Orwell thought of the problem involved. |
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“Orwell’s Dystopia - Some Remarks” [BS] |
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Remarks on Orwell's 1984 and its context on the author's life (Eric Blair/George Orwell) |
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Short Quotations from 1984 (1949) |
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A selection of shorter quotations from Book Riot - online. |
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Longer Extracts [three episodes]
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In contrast with his sensitive conversations with his lover (Julia), Winston's exchanges with his Truth Ministry colleague (Syme) and the chief of the Thought Police (O'Brien) are filled with ideological absurdity and terror ... |
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Jesse Matz, Modern English Novel - Chap. 5 [extracts on Orwell] |
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Matz tackles the question whether a political forecast of this kind can be a novel - and what Orwell thought of the problem involved. |
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“Orwell’s Dystopia - Some Remarks” [BS] |
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Remarks on Orwell's 1984 and its context on the author's life (Eric Blair/George Orwell) |
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| William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954) |
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Lord of the Flies |
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Golding’s famous novel follows the pattern of the desert-island boy-adventure story of which Treasure Island and Coral Island are the classic English examples. But with a notable difference ... |
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| Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) |
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| Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963) |
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| Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (1967) |
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| Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (1969) |
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| Tony Morrison, Beloved (1987) |
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| Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003) |
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| James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) |
| The Rapid-Read Ulysses: Samples from each successive chapter of Joyce's great novel [ links as below] |
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Chaps. 1-3: Telemachus - Nestor - Proteus
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Chaps. 11-14: Sirens - Cyclops - Nausicaa - Oxen of the Sun [download]
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Chaps. 4-6: Calypso - Lotuseaters - Hades [download]
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Chaps 15-18: Circe - Eumaeus - Ithaca - Penelope
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Chaps. 7-10: Lestrygonians - Scylla & Charybdis - Wandering Rocks
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EXTRA |
Joyce’s Comments on Ulysses & Some Critics’ Remarks
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Note: A complete edition of Ulysses can be met with in the RICORSO Library > Irish Authors > James Joyce - online.
See also the Joyce pages in RICORSO - online. |
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| Commentary |
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| Jesse Metz, The Modern Novel (2004) |
A lively study of modern literary fiction centred on Modernism and its successors. |
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| Modern - How? |
| Why and When ... |
| "What is Reality?": The New Questions |
| New Forms: Reshaping the Novel |
| New Difficulties |
| Regarding the Real World: Politics |
Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions |
| Post-Modern Replenishments? |
| Postcolonial Modernity |
| Four Contemporary Novelists; The Future of the Novel |
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| Andrew Sanders, English Literary History (1994) |
English Lit. Hist. from the Anglo-Saxon times to the 1990s (full text). |
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Extract on Modern Novel
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A Chronology of Eng. Lit.
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| A general survey incorporating critical remarks with notable clarity and concision. |
| A useful Listing of historical events and major literary works in English |
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| Randall Stevenson, The Modern English Novel (1996) |
Chapter-essay on the novel with a good documentary sense of its subjects and treatment. |
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| Gyorgy Lukacs, The Ideology of Modernism (1955) |
A vigorous attack on Literary Modernism from the standpoint of the famous Hungarian Marxist critic who seems it as a more of decadent subjectivism remote from the purposes of good literature. |
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Critical Theory
| Richard Bradford, ed., Introducing Literary Studies (London & NY: Wheatsheaf 1996) - Critical Approaches |
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| Jesse Metz, The Modern Novel (2004) |
A lively study of modern literary fiction centred on Modernism and its successors. |
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| Richard Bradford |
New Criticism, Formalism and Structuralism |
| Matt Currie |
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction |
| James Knowles |
Reader-response Criticism |
| James Knowles |
Marxism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism |
| Anne McCartney |
Pyschoanalytical Literary Theory |
| Liz McIntyre |
Gender and Literature: Women Writers |
| Tamsin Spargo |
Gender & Literature: Feminist Criticism |
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| Course Description/Ementa |
NOME DA DISCIPLINA |
LEM2018 - FORMAS NARRATIVAS LONGAS II |
CÓDIGO DA DISCIPLINA |
LEM2018 |
PROFESSOR |
BRUCE STEWART |
CARGA-HORÁRIA |
60 |
HORÁRIO |
24M56 |
QUANTIDADE DE VAGAS |
30 |
CONTEÚDO |
Ementa: Estudo de obras representativas das tradições mais significativas das narrativas longas da língua inglesa do período modernista à contemporaneidade.
OBJETIVOS:
- Introduzir os alunos às obras de um grupo de escritores de língua inglesa dos séculos XX e XXI, dando ênfase à crítica dialética, a relação entre forma literária e processo social.
- Promover a compreensão do aluno a respeito das teorias narrativas aplicadas ao romance moderno/contemporâneo.
- Praticar exercícios de narratologia na análise dos romances.
- Explorar textos teóricos e críticos que auxiliem na compreensão das narrativas analisadas ao longo do semestre.
Conteúdo: 10 romances escritos no periodo entre 1900 e 2000 por alguns dos escritores mais bem-conhecidos e influentes da literatura inglesa e americana.
METODOLOGIA: As aulas serão expositivas, seguidas de discussões e apresentações em grupo. A inclusão de textos teóricos sobre abordagens críticas modernas apropriadas a cada autor tratado será um ingrediente formal do cronograma e da disciplina.
Procedimentos de Avaliação da Aprendizagem: Cada aluna/o deverá comentar sobre um dos romances escolhidos numa lista longa de títulos chamada de “40 English Novelists”, através de ensaios e apresentações, e contribuir nas discussões sobre os tópicos focados nos 10 textos incluídos no cronograma semanal, bem como a assiduidade ao longo do semestre. Haverá um mini-exame por unidade, para medir o conhecimento das/os alunas/os dos autores e tópicos já estudados. |
METODOLOGIA |
Aulas remotas, expositórias e interativas, utilizando as ferramentas de Google Meet, Whatsapp, slides e vídeos. Conteúdo das aulas se baseia em temas e atividades do World English 2 e outras matérias complementares a estes conteúdos.
Recursos Didáticos:
Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas (SIGAA), para mandar notícias, registrar notas, solicitar atividades escritas e orais;
Google Meet, através de computador ou telefone celular, para exibição de apresentações em Adobe PDF, e apresentação e prática dos tópicos de forma síncrona;
E-mail, para envio de instruções e material e para recebimento de atividades designadas aos alunos como avaliações;
Materiais digitais: postados sob a forma de PDF, link para vídeos, canções, podcasts etc. |
PROCEDIMENTOS AVALIATIVOS |
AV I Atividade Escrita – (60%)
AV II Atividade oral (40%)
AVIII Atividade escrita e oral (30%); Atividades orais – participação na aula (10%) |
RECURSOS DIDÁTICOS |
Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas (SIGAA), para mandar notícias, registrar notas, solicitar atividades escritas e orais, administrar atividades avaliativas;
Google Meet ou Zoom, através de computador ou telefone celular, para exibição de apresentações em PowerPoint e apresentação e prática dos tópicos de forma síncrona;
E-mail, para envio de instruções e/ou material;
Materiais digitais: postados sob a forma de PDF, link para vídeos, canções, podcasts, jogos digitais educativos etc. |
REFERÊNCIAS |
Além os textos nomeados na cronograma (accesíveis facilemente por Kindle, &c.):
- 2015. Arata, Stephen, et al., eds., A Companion to the English Novel (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell)
- 1989. Ashcroft, Bill, et al., eds., The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures (London: Routledge)
- 1996. Bradford, Richard, ed., Introducing Literary Studies (NY: Prentice Hall)
- 2005: Eagleton, Terry, The English Novel: An Introduction (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell)
- 1927. Forster, E. M., Aspects of the Novel (NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- 2006. Gallagher, Catherine, ‘Fictionality’, in The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, ed. Franco Moretti, Franco (Princeton University Press)
- 1984 [new edn.], Gilbert, Sandra & Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman In The Attic”, in The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination [1979]
- 1994. Lodge, David, The Art of Fiction Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts (London: Penguin)
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