English 165. Proust, Joyce, Woolf: Aestheticism and Modernism

Instructor: Philip Fisher
Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: Emerson 101
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Topics include: modernism; aesthetic experience; the life of art; the city; and novelistic form; the moment and memory within temporal experiences. Joyce, Dubliners and Ulysses; Proust, Swann's Way; and Within a Budding Grove; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Kawabata, Snow Country. Writings of Pater, Simmel, T.S. Eliot, and sections from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.