Professor Melba Cuddy-Keane

 email: mcuddy@chass.utoronto.ca
 

This course will combine a study of selected works of Modernist fiction with readings in narrative theory from the early twentieth century to the present. Some objectives will be: to study the emergence of narrative theory in the Modernist period; to consider the way the meaning of "Modernism" was produced through later critical and theoretical studies; to examine potential applications of current narrative theory to Modernist fiction; to reexamine Postmodernist constructions of Modernism as Postmodernism's "Other"; to examine potentials for computerized analysis of Modernist texts; to examine the significance, to narratological studies, of feminist and cultural critique.

Course Discussion Topics

Electronic Texts:

University of Toronto English Library

• Henry James, The Ambassadors (UTEL)
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (UTEL)

Search DataBase (UTEL)

Resource Materials

• An Historical Compilation of Definitions/Representations of Modernism
• A Modernism Timeline (from u.washington.edu)
• Contextualizing Modernism: Modernism and Postmodernism
• Contextualizing Modernism: Modernism and the Victorians
• An Essay on Modernism and the Modern Novel (from The Electronic Labyrinth)
• Modernism/Modernity : an on-line-journal (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press)
• A compilation of quotations concerning structure/plot/discourse in narrative
• A compilation of quotations concerning character/subject/subjectivity in modernism

Related Electronic Lists and Web Sites

• Linguistics and Literature E-list (York University)
• SSNL (Society for the Study of Narrative Literature) Web Site and E-list
• Modernism E-list Web Site (includes archives of the list)
• Mod Brits E-list (Kent State)
• Index of Web Sites on Modernism-Brown Univ. (note last updated Dec. 1996)
• International Virginia Woolf Society News, Conference Calls, Links, and Discussion List
• TACT Web Site (Text Analysis Computing Tools)