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Session 4

I'll lecture for some of this week's class. If I lecture I'll probably repeat what I've been thinking and publishing on the subject. To give you a sense of my current thinking on these issues, I append a recent essay (by me) on Ezra Pound and how modernism uses translation. You might as well read it as to have me repeat it to you-we can use the time more efficiently in this way and can open more comfortably into conversation. See the study materials section for the referenced essay.

Session 7

I'll lecture for some of this week's class. If I lecture I'll probably repeat what I've been thinking and publishing on the subject. To give you a sense of my current thinking on these issues, I append a recent essay (by me) on Charlie Chaplin and how modernism poetry uses image-techniques derived from film. The point is not only that the poems allude to Chaplin, but that they often derive their own sense of literary aesthetics, paradoxically, from film aesthetics. You might as well read the argument as to have me repeat it to you. I should mention that this essay is a bit self-reflexive-it deals with the dynamic of teaching MIT students-and that it's strictly a draft. I'll be interested to hear if its account of MIT classroom dynamics reflects your own sense of those dynamics. See the study materials section for the referenced essay.

SES #TOPICS
1Introductions

Origins of Modernism I

Symbolist Textuality, Aestheticism, Relation to Image the Flaneur and the City
2Origins of Modernism II

The End of Victorianism

Ethics and Aesthetics

Oratory and the Performative

Darwin and Social Change
3Origins of Modernism: III

World War I

The End of the Discourse of Rationalism

The Empire Break Down
4Modernism and Orientalism

The Ideogram

Gender and Translation ('Feminizing' Asia)

The War at Home

F.S. Flint
5The Modern Image and Sculpture

Early Wittgenstein and the Status of the Image
6Montage and Film-history

Radio Aesthetics

The Photographic Image and the Liteary Image

The Image as Repository of Desire
7

Chaplin as Everyman, Chaplin as Subversive

Modern Irony and Chaplin's Sentimentalilty

'Machine' Aesthetics

8The Psychology of Self-revelation

Time, Change, and the Image in 'Prufrock'

The Image as Repoistory of Meaning
9The "Mythic Method" and History

The Working Papers to "The Waste Land", and Ezra Pound's Editing

Anthropology, Distance, and Irony: "The Golden Bough"
10The Status of Allusion

Speech, Speechlessness, and the Buddha
11Williams: "Waste Land" as the "Great Catastrophe"

Free Verse and the American Idiom

"'Medical' Aesthetics: Why a 'Contagious Hospital'?"
12Words as Things

Constructionism and Objectivism

The Gendered 'Gaze'

Class Distinctions in High Modernism
13-14Harlem Renaissance

Jazz, Race, and Gender
15Woolf

Mr. Ramsay and the Limits of Reason: Lines

Mrs. Ramsay and the Expansion of Consciousness: Circles
16Woolf (cont.)

Lily's Androgynous Vision
17Yeats

Pound

Stevens

Doolittle

Auden

Conquest

Ashbery

Art, Disillusionment, and Modernist Form

Aestheticism as Ritual, as Religion
18Yeats (cont.)

"Sailing to Byzantium": What's the Problem? [Stanzas 1 and 2]
19Yeats (cont.)

"Sailing to Byzantium": Where to Look for a Resolution? [Stanzas 3 and 4]
20Yeats (cont.)

Stevens

Stevens, Repetition, and Language: Emerson meets Heidegger
21Stevens (cont.)

Displaced Spirituality and Modernrist Compensaion ["Sunday Morning" - Stanzas 1 and 2]
22Stevens (cont.)

Versions of "Sunday Morning"

Transcendenence and the Image

Keats and Stevens: The Last Stanza of "Sunday Morning"
23-25Student Presentations

 








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