Modern British Literature
Readings for Research and Writing ("Path 2")

"For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language;
the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation
is often the most poetic , and the most poetic is precisely
that which cannot be written down" (253).
Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928)

 
Almayer's Folly (1895) & Heart of Darkness (1899)
Lord Jim (1899-1900)
Nostromo (1904)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob's Room (1922) & To the Lighthouse (1927)
Dubliners (1914) & A Portrait of the Artist (1916)
Week One: Sept 22-26
AF:
chps 1-4
LJ:
chps 1-7
N: Part 1,
chps 1-7
N&D:
chps 1-6
JR:
chps 1-4
D: "An Encounter," "The Boarding House," "A Mother"
Week Two: Sept 29 - Oct 3
AF:
chps 5-8
LJ:
chps 8-15
N: Part 1, chp 8 and
Part 2, chps 1-4

N&D:
chps 7-14

JR:
chps 5-10
D: "The Dead" Longman 2445-73
Week Three: Oct 6-10
AF:
chps 9-12
LJ:
chps 16-24
N: Part 2,
chps 5-6
N&D:
chps 15-20
JR:
chps 11-14
APotA:
chps 1-2

Week Four: Oct 13-17

HoD:
chp 1
LJ:
chps 25-35
N: Part 2,
chps 7-8
N&D:
chps 21-25
TtL:
Part 1
APotA:
chp 3

Week Five: Oct 20-24

HoD:
chp 1
LJ:
chps 36-45
N: Part 3,
chps 1-5
N&D:
chps 26-30
TtL:
Part 2
APotA:
chp 4
Week Six: Oct 27-31
HoD:
chp 1
LJ: 393-403, 439-54, 473-92
N: Part 3,
chps 6-9
N&D:
chps 31-34
TtL:
Part 3
APotA:
chp 5
Week Seven: Nov 3-7
Coppola's
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Brooks'
Lord Jim (1965)
Reid's Nostromo (1997)
Gorris's Mrs. Dalloway (1998)
Gregg's To the Lighthouse (1983)
Strick's A Portrait of the Artist (1979)
Week Eight: Nov 10-14
PAPER CONFERENCES being in Week Seven and continue into Week Eight
in my office (building 47, office 35A):
bring 1-2 pg outline & 1st pg of term paper
Friday, Dec 5
TERM PAPER DUE at midnight
(send Word file via email to "pmarchba@calpoly.edu")



"Love and Pain," or "The Vampire" (1893)
Edvard Munch


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu