Lectures take place on Mondays at 5pm in IMC.002.

Term 1

03 Oct. 2016. Introduction: Modernity, Manifestoes and the Module 

10 Oct. Goethe, Faust Part I 

17 Oct. Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, African 

24 Oct. Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”; Percy B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” and “The Mask of Anarchy”; Pushkin, “The Bronze Horseman” 

31 Oct. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 

14 Nov. Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life,” “The Swan,” “The Eyes of the Poor,” “Lost Halo,” “Bash the Poor!”; Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat””

21 Nov. Ibsen, A Doll’s House 

28 Nov. Soseki, Kokoro 

05 Dec. Conrad, Heart of Darkness 

Term 2

9 Jan. 2017. Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman”; Babel, “The Story of My Dovecote”; Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” 

16 Jan. Kafka, The Metamorphosis 

23 Jan. Apollinaire, “Zone”; Eliot, The Waste Land 

30 Jan. Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider 

6 Feb. Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children 

20 Feb. Beckett, Endgame 

27 Feb. Lispector, The Hour of the Star 

6 Mar. Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land; O’Hara, “Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets” and “The Day Lady Died”; Bishop, “Questions of Travel”; Brathwaite, “Letter Sycorax” 

13 Mar. Salih, A Season of Migration to the North