Chapter 1

Modernist Fiction: Stream of Consciousness

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

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James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Interior monologue and nonlinear time

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Urban experience and psychological depth

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The crisis of representation and language

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Chapter 2

Joseph Conrad and the Critique of Imperialism

Heart of Darkness

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Narrative framing and unreliable narrators

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The darkness of human nature and Colonialism

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Impressionism in literature

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Race and the European 'civilizing mission'

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Chapter 3

W. B. Yeats and Early Modern Poetry

W. B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming', 'Sailing to Byzantium'

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Symbolism and esoteric systems

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Irish Nationalism and the Celtic Revival

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The tension between art and life, youth and aging

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The apocalyptic vision in Modernism

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Chapter 4

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The Waste Land (Selections)

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Tradition and the Individual Talent

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Fragmentation, Mythical Method, and Allusions

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Post-War disillusionment and spiritual barrenness

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Chapter 5

D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers or selected Short Stories

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Psychoanalysis and the Oedipus Complex

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Industrialization versus the Organic Life

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Human relationships, sexuality, and instinct

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Working-class experience in British fiction

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