{"id":18920,"date":"2010-06-21T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18920"},"modified":"2017-10-03T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:08:09","slug":"british-modern-novel-and-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18920&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Modern British Novel and the British Empire (archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:\u00a0 <\/strong>Modern British Novel and the British Empire<\/span>
\n Instructor<\/strong>: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107
\n ECTS credits: <\/strong>6<\/span>
\n Status:<\/strong> elective<\/span>
\n Semester: <\/strong>7th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup>\u00a0
\n Enrollment requirements:\u00a0 <\/strong>Enrollment in the graduate programme
\n Course description:<\/strong> \u00a0In this course we will read a selection of British modernist novels (Conrad, Joyce, Tagore).\u00a0 Our thematic focus will be on the literary uses of the British Empire, imperialism and colonialism in those novels.\u00a0 We will deal with characteristics of modernism as a period in literary history, and the ways in which the selected novels exemplify such characteristics.\u00a0 Much of our discussions will center on themes articulated by postcolonial criticism (the relationship between the metropole and the colony; going native; writing about imperial others; writing as an imperial other, construction of gender in colonial societies and discourses, etc.).\u00a0 The course will involve a good deal of reading in imperial history and postcolonial criticism.
\n Objectives:<\/strong> The course is designed to facilitate active student engagement with issues in literary interpretation and history, as well as to create a structured theoretical context for analytical writing on literary subjects. offers an introduction to some of the key texts of British modern novel, as well as into postcolonial studies as one of the most important types of contemporary literary study.\u00a0 Like other diploma level seminars, this one also focuses on improving the skills of analyzing literary texts.
\n Course requirements: <\/strong>The grade is based on a written essay at the end of term (5-6) pages, a mid-term quiz and a quiz at the end of term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:
\n <\/strong>1. week: Introduction to modernism. Periodization, status of the novel as a genre, the historical context of imperialism.\u00a0 Said\u2019s concept of orientalism. McClintock and the question of postcolonial theory.<\/span>
\n 2. week: Kipling. <\/span>
\n 3. week: Kipling\u00a0 Cohn: representations of colonial authority.\u00a0 Conrad, and European imperialism in Africa.<\/span>
\n 4. week: Conrad. Achebe, and the issue of racism in literature. <\/span>
\n 5. week: Brantlinger, and the relationship between modernism and imperialism.<\/span>
\n 6. week: Joyce.<\/span>
\n 7. week: Mid-term quiz<\/strong>. <\/span>
\n 8. week: Joyce. <\/span>
\n 9. week: Joyce. Renan, and defining the nation.<\/span>
\n 10. week: Fanon, and the question of decolonization.<\/span>
\n 11 week: Tagore. The essay is due<\/strong>.<\/span>
\n 12 week: Tagore.<\/span>
\n 13 week: Nehru, and the question of development.<\/span>
\n 14 week. Second quiz.<\/span>
\n 15 week: Course summary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Reading:
\n <\/strong>A. Required reading:<\/span>
\n Novels:
\n <\/span>Rudyard Kipling, Kim
\n <\/em>Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
\n <\/em>James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
\n <\/em>Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
\n <\/em>Criticism<\/span>:<\/span>
\n Chinua Achebe, \u201cAn Image of Africa.\u201d Massachussets Review<\/em> 18, 1997.<\/span>
\n Patrick Brantlinger, The Rule of Darkness <\/em>(excerpts). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.<\/span>
\n Frantz Fanon, \u201cThe Wretched of the Earth\u201d from Omar Dahbour, The Nationalism Reader<\/em>. Humanity Books, 1995.<\/span>
\n Anne McClintock, \u201cThe Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term \u2018Post-colonialism\u2019\u201d.\u00a0
\n Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. A Reader<\/em> (ed. Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman).\u00a0 New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.<\/span>
\n Edward Said, \u201cIntroduction\u201d to Orientalism,<\/em> New York: Vintage Books, 1979.<\/span>
\n Bernard S. Cohn, \u201cRepresenting Authority in Colonial India\u201d, from Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.<\/span>
\n Ernest Renan, \u201cWhat is a Nation?\u201d, The NationalismReader.
\n <\/em>Jawaharlal Nehru, \u201cThe Discovery of India\u201d, The Nationalism Reader<\/em>.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

B. Optional reading:<\/span>
\n Anthony Apiah, \u201cTopologies of Nativism\u201d Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology<\/em>. London: Blackwell, 1998.<\/span>
\n Carole Boyce Davies, \u201cMigratory Subjectivities\u201d. Literary Theory: An Anthology<\/em>.<\/span>
\n Fredric Jameson, \u201cModernism and Imperialism\u201d, from Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n

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