0626.4610  הנרי ג'יימס ווירג'יניה וולף HENRY JAMES AND VIRGINIA WOOLF | |
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פרופ' חנה וירט-נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesher | סמינר מ"א MA SEMINAR |
This course will examine the writings of Henry James and Virginia Woolf in a number of different frameworks: periodization (the ongoing debate about modernism and post-modernism); genre (artistic subversions and experimentation with traditional genres; gender (the construction of masculinity and femininity as theme and narrative strategy); national identity (exile, emigre, imperialism, imagining national communities); aesthetics and ethics (concerns about the relation between art and war, between art and commerce); historical and social contexts (social class, commodity culture, “Gilded Age,” and “Victorian-Edwardian England”); self-reflexivity (the authors’ own artistic theories as well as art as theme and the relation to other art forms).
Texts: James, The Portrait of a Lady The Aspern Papers "The Art of Fiction" The Figure in the Carpet" "The Beast in the Jungle" The Ambassadors Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway To The Lighthouse "Modern Fiction" "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" A Room of One's Own The Waves Between the Acts Critical and theoretical works will be announced. | |
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