M O D E R N I S M

SEMINAR 5

(after the SEMINAR on OSCAR WILDE)

1 WHAT IS MODERNISM? WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF MODERNISM in literature?

a/ MODERNISM IS ABOUT MIND: comment on this statement

b/ WHAT IS THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS?

2 JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) as the Father of Literary modernism: a few most

important facts of JOYCE’s life and literary career

3 JOYCE: “EVELINE” ---A SHORT STORY OF THE COLLECTION “ DUBLINERS”: who is

the narrator? WHOSE MIND IS REPRESENTED? WHERE IS THE EPIPHANY? WHAT
ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERNISM?

4 JOYCE: “A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN” (1916): THE MEANING

OF THE TITLE; WHOSE MIND IS REPRESENTED? WHO IS THE PROTAGOINIST? WHAT
IS GOING ON IN CHAPTER 4?

5 JOYCE: “ULYSSES” (1922)—WHAT MAKES THIS NOVEL UNIQUE? ( in the world

literature)

WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE NOVEL?

6 VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882—1941): IMPRESSIONISM IN LITERATURE (what is

impressionism?);

“MRS DALLOWAY” (1925): THE SETTING; WHAT IS CLARISSA DALLOWAY DOING?

READ THE FIRST PAGE of the novel and PROVE THAT THIS IS A SHOWCASE OF
MODERNISM. COMMENT ON THE CHARACTERS: PETER WALSH—MRS DALLOWAY
—SEPTIMUS SMITH (ARE THEY INTERRELATEd?)

THE THEMES OF THE NOVEL

7. DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE (1885-1930): LADY CHATTERLREY’S LOVER (1928)

THE THEME OF A PROTEST AGAINST “MECHANIZED CIVILIZATION”

WHY WAS THE NOVEL BANNED?

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVE AFFAIR?

AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION:

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH

MODERNISMS?