[Vwoolf] Woolf in Conversation

Tue Sep 20 15:16:34 EDT 2022

Dear Kristina...
Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf and the Victorians.
Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling, Bronte-Rhys,
Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for bringing authors
of different cultures, countries, politics, history and periods into relief.

Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers

This course will focus on the novels of Virginia Woolf in juxtaposition
with short readings from international modernist  women writers: Ding Ling
(China); Anita Desai and Sara Suleri (India/Pakistan);  Christa Wolfe
(Germany); Amelia Kahane-Carmon (Israel); Gertrude Stein and Djuna
Barnes(America/France), Natalie Sarraute (France) among others.  Woolf’s
polemics, *A Room of One’s* *Own* and *Three Guineas,* will frame
geopolitical and modernist issues such as women’s participation in
education, work, fiction and government as well as decisions about war. *To
the Lighthouse* will illuminate the domestic, “Angel in the House; *Mrs.
Dalloway* will introduce issues of gender that will take flight in the
fantasy of *Orlando*; the great narrative experiment of *The Waves* will
join with other modernist experiments. The way in which Woolf “travels” to
other countries will be framed by the theories of de Saussure, M.M.
Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Susan Stanford Friedman and James Clifford.

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*English 793: Victorian Conversations*

Syllabus

     This course presents British Victorian texts in conversation with
modern or contemporary works, sometimes from different cultures.
Nineteenth-century preoccupations with virtue, duty, nation, colonialism,
evolution, religion, race, class and gender are brought into relief in the
twentieth century. One work answers another.

Jan. 26th: Introduction

Feb. 2nd:  “Florence Nightingale” in *The Eminent Victorians*

                Visit to the Darwin exhibit, Museum of Natural History
(date to be arranged)

Feb. 9th:   Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 49-144 (ch.1-5)

                 Edward Said: Introduction

Feb. 16th: Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 145-338

                Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum”

Feb.23th:  Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.9-92

March 2nd: Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.93-157

March 9nd:  Charlotte Bronte, *Jane Eyre*

                    Short essay due (topics to be discussed)

March 16th: Bronte, *Jane Eyre*

March 23:  Jean Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp. 17-118

March 30:  Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp.119-190

April 6th:   Selected essays: Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf

April 12th-23rd: Spring Break

April 27th: Disraeli, *Sybil*

                  Engels, *The Condition of the Working Class in England*
(excerpt)

May 4th: Disraeli, *Sybil*

May 11th: Ian McEwan, *Saturday*

                 Longer essay due (topics developed from and related to
short oral reports)

May 17th: McEwan, *Saturday*

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:27 PM Andrea Zemgulys via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Kristina, I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me
> know of a book she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry. ” I gather
> that she composed new poems from favorite Woolf passages. Nazifa Islam,
> Forlorn Light: ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍
> Dear Kristina,
>
> I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me know of a book she
> is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry.” I gather that she composed new
> poems from favorite Woolf passages.
>
> *Nazifa Islam, Forlorn Light: “...published with a small UK publisher so
> there hasn't been a lot of advertising for the collection, but *here
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.shearsman.com/store/Nazifa-Islam-Forlorn-Light-p362124177__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImR8OhJBJc$> is
> the book's webpage on the Shearsman Books site and here's
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nazifaislam.com/forlorn-light__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImRTQCbvB0$> the
> book's webpage on my own website, which is a bit more detailed."
>
> Maybe something from this book will work for you…or you could have your
> students compose their own “found” poems — that might work very well for an
> assignment!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andrea Zemgulys
> Michigan, USA
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:06 PM, Kristina Groover via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Woolfians,
>
> I am developing an undergraduate course titled "Woolf in Conversation,"
> and I would love to solicit your ideas.   I am particularly interested in
> having students read Woolf's work alongside contemporary women writers and
> writers of color.  Please share your ideas about writers and texts that
> you've found especially engaging when read in conversation with Woolf,
> especially with an undergraduate class in mind.  Many thanks!
>
> Kristina Groover
> --
> Kristina K. Groover
> Professor of English
> Appalachian State University
> Member, Heterodox Academy (heterodoxacademy.org
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>
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