04 67 79 15 42 2012-2013 SEMEST - University of Minnesota

The journal Cahiers Elisabéthains, which belongs to the IRCL, presents a number of valuable play reviews of contemporary
international productions. Site web : http://recherche.univmontp3.fr/cahiers/
For information about current staging: www.rscshakespeare.co.uk
MODALITES DE CONTROLE
- Un oral en anglais (commentaire littéraire ou commentaire d’une mise en scène) : 50% de la note semestrielle (coeff.1).
- Un écrit en français (une composition en 3 heures) : 50% de la note semestrielle (coeff. 1).
Lundi 14h15-16H15 G213 A. Lafont
LIT 6R Edwardian and Modernist Literature
In or about December 1910, human character changed, Virginia Woolf wrote. Indeed, at that time, all the arts joined in a général
groundswell, an international movement generally known as modernism. In England, the advent of modernist littérature and art
coincided with technological changes, the development of urban England, the decline of the British Empire, changes in women’s
rights and on the whole, in Englishness. Modernist littérature, in the Wake of Edwardian littérature, emancipated itself from
Victorian taboos and Victorian literary conventions in order to transmit those changes through a form of représentation that
would be mimetic anymore but would foreground subjectivity, relativity, and fragmentation instead of the former stability.
Emblematic novels of the Edwardian and modernist periods will be studied : Arnold Bennett’s Anna of the five towns (1902) and
E.M Forster’s Howards End (1910) together with D.H. Lawrence’s controversial The Rainbow, published and banned in 1915,
a,d Virginia Woolf’s humorous Flush (1933)
COMPULSORY READING
Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the Five Towns. 1902. London: Penguin Classics,
Forster, Edward Morgan . Howards End. 1910. London: Penguin Classics, 2000.
Lawrence, David Herbert. The Rainbow. 1915. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
Woolf, Virginia. Flush. 1933. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2009.
Exam : One oral exam and one writen final exam
Mardi 13h15-15h15 G213 C. Reynier
E66AN3 Approfondissements (3c)
2 cours au choix :
CIV1 S6 The Fruits of Passion : An introduction to the History of Emotions in Early Modern England
16th and 17th century writings consistently warn against the dangers of the « passions », which are denounced as a threat to the
individual’s mental or bodily health and must therefore be « restrained » or « moderated ». Some doctor’s case notes even
contain accounts of the men of women who died from grief or requited love, belying Rosalind’s statement that « men have died
from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love » (As You Like It, IV.1). This négative discourse is, however,
largely counterbalanced by an emphasis on the positive ethical meaning of the passions : while the lack of affection is interpreted
as a sign of sinfulness and moral décrépitude, the right use of the passions is constructed as a defining élément of the virtuous
life. Far from being prohibited, the expression of appropriate émotions is indeed considered désirable.
Using a variety of primary texts, including excerpts from médical and philosophical treatises, sermons, autobiographies, poems
ad plays, this course will provide an introduction to the history of émotions in 16th and 17th century England. Focusing on what
early modern authors called « passion » or « affection », we will first explore the extent to which thèse catégories converge with
and diverge from the modern concept of « émotion ». After examining the diferent définitions and taxonomies that emerge from
early modern writings on the topic, we will Survey the médical, philosophical and religious traditions that shape contemporary
représentations of the émotions and outline norms or behaviour guiding individual conduct. Finally, we will look at a number of
case-studies in the attempt to explore how émotions define or are perceived to define individual and collective expérience.
What is an appropriate émotion ? What benefits can be reaped from using émotions effectively ? How do émotions participate in
the « negotiation of relationships ? These are some of the issues that we will focus on.
REQUIRED READING
SHAKESPEARE, William. Hamlet. Ed. G.R. Hibbard. Oxford: Oxford UP, World’s Classics, 1998.
Mercredi 17h15-18h45 F106 P. Barros
LITT1 S6 Food for Thought: The Literary Representation of Food in a Selection of Postcolonial Writings
This seminar will be concerned with the representation of food, the preparation and the sharing of meals in texts that dramatize
the contact, exchanges and transitions between cultures. Anthropologists such as Claude Lévi--­‐Strauss have emphasized that
eating is not only a basic physical need, but also, and perhaps primarily, a marker of social and cultural belonging. In works of
fiction, food imagery fully contributes to the figurative operations of texts in which the motif frequently functions as a metonym
of community, place and territory. Working from this perspective, we will explore a selection of short stories and novels
highlighting, in John Thieme’s words, that “food discourses are both an integral part of the ways in which individuals and
cultures identify themselves, and of the ways in which they are perceived from outside, usually as the result from stereotyping.”
We will focus on a wide range of authors and texts mainly, yet not exclusively, from India, privileging the gastronomic genres of
pastiche and satire. Ultimately, this should lead us to analyse the values these writers attribute to commensality, integrating food
imagery within a wider reflection upon the protean form of the novel and its tolerance for difference.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CORE TEXTS
DESAI, Anita. In Custody. 1984. London: Vintage, 1999.
LAHIRI, Jhumpa. The Namesake. 2003. New York: Houghton & Mifflin C°, 2004. PATTERSON, Kevin. Consumption. A
Novel of the Arctic. 2007. New York: Anchor Books,
2008.
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