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