{"id":29906,"date":"2017-10-03T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29906&lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:35:54","slug":"modern-british-novel-and-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29906&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Modern British Novel and the British Empire (arch.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: <\/strong>Modern British Novel and the British Empire<\/span>
\nInstructor<\/strong>: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6<\/span>
\nStatus:<\/strong> elective<\/span>
\nSemester: <\/strong>1st<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>
\nEnrollment requirements: <\/strong>Enrollment in the graduate programme
\nCourse description:<\/strong> In this course we will read a selection of novels by British authors (Kipling, Conrad, Woolf) and one novel (by Tagore) written in India under British rule; our thematic focus will be on the literary uses of the British Empire, imperialism and colonialism in those novels. We will deal with characteristics of modernism as a period in literary history, and the ways in which the selected novels exemplify such characteristics. 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.). Kipling\u2019s novel Kim, which does not belong to literary modernism, will be used to provide an introduction both to the discussion of literary-historical periodization and the discussion of postcolonial criticism.\u00a0The students are expected to take part in course discussions and to examine closely the formal and historical characteristics of the literary texts. The students are also expected to further develop skills of researching and working with secondary sources. By participating in class discussions and their individual research work the students should develop the ability of familiarizing themselves with the structure of the literary-critical debate about the topics of this course. <\/p>\n

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Objectives:<\/strong> The course offers an introduction to some of the key texts of British modern novel, and to postcolonial criticism as an important type of contemporary literary study. Like other graduate level English literature courses, this course also focuses on improving the skills of analyzing literary texts. <\/p>\n

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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. <\/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. Said\u2019s concept of orientalism. McClintock and the question of postcolonial theory.<\/span>
\n2. week: Kipling. <\/span>
\n3. week: Kipling Cohn: representations of colonial authority. Conrad, and European imperialism in Africa.<\/span>
\n4. week: Conrad. Achebe, and the issue of racism in literature. <\/span>
\n5. week: Brantlinger, and the relationship between modernism and imperialism.<\/span>
\n6. week: Tagore.<\/span>
\n7. week: Mid-term quiz<\/strong>. <\/span>
\n8. week: Tagore. <\/span>
\n9. week: Renan, and defining the nation.<\/span>
\n10. week: Nehru, and the question of development.<\/span>
\n11 week: Woolf. The essay is due<\/strong>.<\/span>
\n12 week: Woolf.<\/span>
\n13 week: Cannadine, Ornamentalism<\/em> .<\/span>
\n14 week. Second quiz<\/strong>.<\/span>
\n15 week: Course summary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading:
\n<\/strong>A. Required reading:<\/span>
\nNovels:
\n<\/span>Rudyard Kipling, Kim
\n<\/em>Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
\n<\/em>Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
\n<\/em><\/span>Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Criticism<\/span>:
\nChinua Achebe, \u201cAn Image of Africa.\u201d Massachussets Review<\/em> 18, 1997.
\nPatrick Brantlinger, The Rule of Darkness <\/em>(excerpts). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
\nFrantz Fanon, \u201cThe Wretched of the Earth\u201d in Omar Dahbour, The Nationalism Reader<\/em>. Humanity Books, 1995.
\nAnne McClintock, \u201cThe Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term \u2018Post-colonialism\u2019\u201d. \u00a0Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. A Reader<\/em> (ed. Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman).\u00a0 New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
\nEdward Said, \u201cIntroduction\u201d to Orientalism,<\/em> New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
\nBernard S. Cohn, \u201cRepresenting Authority in Colonial India\u201d, in Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition<\/em>.\u00a0 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
\nErnest Renan, \u201cWhat is a Nation?\u201d, The Nationalism Reader.<\/em>
\nJawaharlal Nehru, \u201cThe Discovery of India\u201d, The Nationalism Reader<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Cannadine, Ornamentalism. How the British saw Their Empire<\/em> (excerpts). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Course title: Modern British Novel and the British Empire Instructor: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 ECTS credits: 6 Status: elective Semester: 1st and 3rd Enrollment requirements: Enrollment in the graduate programme Course description: In this course we will read a selection of novels by British authors (Kipling, Conrad, Woolf) and one novel (by Tagore) written in India […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-i-9-semestar-knjizevni-kolegiji-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38186,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}