Modernism: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Katherine Mansfield’s ”The Garden-Party” and ”Bliss”, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and ”Modern Fiction” (essay) – the title implies a program, a kaleidoscopic view on exemplary literary products of the first quarter of the 20th century claiming a variety of critical approaches.
While Conrad’s short novel arouses questions concerning the narrative representation of imperialism, racism and Eurocentricism, Mansfield’s stories and Woolf’s novel evoke approaches focusing modern narrative techniques and their effect.
A close reading of the texts mentioned above is necessary before the seminar; further samples of secondary literature will be handed out. |
