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Early Twentieth-Century Fiction e20fic19.blogs.rutgers.edu Prof. Andrew Goldstone (andrew.goldstone@rutgers.edu) Office hours: Murray 019, Thursdays 11:301:30 or by appointment September 19, 2019. Woolf (2). review: Woolfs own


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Early Twentieth-Century Fiction e20fic19.blogs.rutgers.edu

  • Prof. Andrew Goldstone (andrew.goldstone@rutgers.edu)

Office hours: Murray 019, Thursdays 11:30–1:30 or by appointment September 19, 2019. Woolf (2).

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review: Woolf’s own “modern” fiction

▶ “let us record the atoms as they fall”

▶ interruptions and parataxis ▶ stream of consciousness and interior monologue

▶ “no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest”

▶ then again: “the light in the heart”

▶ “to contrive means of being free”

▶ the “Woolves” and their Hogarth Press ▶ the psychological subject matter ▶ the resistance to the “real”…

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If it were not for Whitaker’s Almanack!—if it were not for the Table of Precedency! (88)

104

Privy Council in Irelanf. Table of Precedency. Щ)е ILort lieutenant anï JIJÍ0 jnajeetg'ja ttounetl in ïrflanîj. honourable

His Excellency JOHN CAMPBELL, EAIIL OF ABERDEEN,

G.M.P., к.т., G.C.M.G., Lord LÚ'Uti4Ktnt'Oenfral and Gsnfrai Gorvntor

  • f Irelatid,

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  • f \Valu.4.
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.-Sir Rcnry Campbell -Bann erman. Tho

Lord Chancellor Sir

ВЯШПШ Walkor. Bt.

Diiku of Devonshire. Duke of Abercorn. Marques« of tjondonderry. ManfaeMOf Ormonde. Karl of Westinoîith- Karl of Mcatli. Earl of Fingall. Karl of M:ivu. Karl of Knie. Karl of Bclnioro. Karl of Dmnmm and Mount Karl. Earl of Ranfurly. Karl Roberts. y$. Viscount Wolseley. Viscount St. Aldwyn. Lord Clonbroek. Lord Adiboarop.

  • Lord. O'Iïrbn (Ы. С JJ,

Lord Allerton. Lord Barrvmore. Lord Onmfcll. Lord Atkinson. Lord Hemphill. Lord Pirrie, Augustine íiirrell fC'hitf Ar. Л Hedge* Куге Chatterton (ficv-Ch,), CbrfitOpbM I':illc.if/,(/.

f'A. Ibiron). Gerald KitzOibbon (Lont Jmticc).

Huiirv Brnen.

  • Win. Moore Johnson (Judge K.K.J,

Sir George Otto Trevely.'in,

Ifcu-t.

Sir Aiitirew Marshall Porter, liart.

.Sir WiUbiu Hart U.vke, Hart.

Hugh Holm«» /£un/ Jnieiwi. John Morley. John Young. Arthur James Half our. John Goorgo (iibson f'/ittfy

).

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  • W. Balfuur.

Thomas Sinclair. Sir Kdward Henry Caraon.

  • Ilion. Sir Hortwo Curzoii Plnnkctt.

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  • K. W. MaunoghU'ii,

Bnrt. Alexander M. Carlisle. Robert Young.

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  • / fte Cvuncil,

Sir Jamen В. Dougherty,

C.B. (Dublin Castle).

fmbers of the Privy Council of Ireland, like those of England, are addressed as The

E: i . I . i Honourable.

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  • f

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Grandisone

  • f the Sovereign.

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  • f Canterbury.

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  • f the ООШНШ*

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  • f

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; a. Of Scotland ; 3. Of <iPCAt nritaiu;

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; 5, Those created nnco the Union. Elduat none of Dukce of Blood Royal. l'ivtuiîXrt'oStnteOfficerflif M апшено^в. >1агцией*е*. in nime order ял Dukce. Duki*' eldest Son».

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  • f I»mlon,

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  • f liaron.

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  • f

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  • f the R-itb. Star of India,
  • St. Michael and St.. Ueorge,

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  • nh-r as tbeir Tftthei-s.

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  • r Hunourabli!.

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  • f Peon

rnnk next imraediatuly after thi «n-en

  • f

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marry ing a Baron degrade« to the rank 01 DUOMM

  • nly, while

her (datera mar ricfl to commoners retain their rani mid tiike prei'ctlenee

  • f the

Baron*>ws Mpivlv official r;ink on the ЬияЬнлгГ:

Hirt

ШОИ not give any Bimilar i»re cedence to the wife. For faller tabb-< "WntTAKER's PKEHAGK, BAHOMT n, KxiUllTAliE ANI> CoMPANIONAAE,' I 'P- 73-75- Tliere яге three1 Onlcrs confinai t' T/t(l im: The OH«r of Victoria »iic Alt-crt. the <-i4>wn of India, anil th« Itoyal Rtxl Сгояя. Hut members an entitle«! to no special precedence. I/OCAL PRECKDKXCT. No

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  • r city ortlcr
  • f pre

ОЮЮОв Ьая lieen iir«-»mulgat«l. пч iwiturally

in the county the

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In

London and Oft» Coq »orations, the Mnvor г mils first nfter him the Alderuicii. Hht-rifl Chief (»ffii-t-r«. and Liven.

At Oxfon

aiul Cnnibridee tin- Hfirli Sli»rin't:ik.i precedence

  • f thi- ГШПМЯМШвНт;

nu»

Joseph Whitaker, An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1908 (London: Whitaker, 1907; HathiTrust), 104.

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real vs. “real”

I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. (89) the air of reality (solidity of specification) (James, “Art of Fiction,” 390)

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real vs. “real”

I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. (89) the air of reality (solidity of specification) (James, “Art of Fiction,” 390)

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the transfer of confidence

Exterior events have actually lost their hegemony, they serve to release and interpret inner events. (Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation

  • f Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask [Princeton U.P.,

1957], 538) A transfer of confidence: the great exterior turning points and blows of fate are granted less importance. (Auerbach, 547) “Curse this war! God damn this war!” (“The Mark on the Wall,” 91)

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the transfer of confidence

Exterior events have actually lost their hegemony, they serve to release and interpret inner events. (Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation

  • f Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask [Princeton U.P.,

1957], 538) A transfer of confidence: the great exterior turning points and blows of fate are granted less importance. (Auerbach, 547) “Curse this war! God damn this war!” (“The Mark on the Wall,” 91)

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questions of scale

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. (“Modern Fiction,” 150) He was little or nothing but life. (“The Death of the Moth,” 4)

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whose freedom?

He was in process of saying that in his opinion art should have ideas behind

  • it. (80)

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Room, 73)

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whose freedom?

He was in process of saying that in his opinion art should have ideas behind

  • it. (80)

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Room, 73)

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Woolf’s opinion

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. (Room, 4)

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Shakespeare’s sister

Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by (Room, 60)

Discussion

What does the parable of Judith Shakespeare tell you about the conditions for writing freely? Find specific examples.

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Shakespeare’s sister

Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by (Room, 60)

Discussion

▶ What does the parable of Judith Shakespeare tell you about the conditions for writing freely? Find specific examples.

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When the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle,

  • ne remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal

creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live

  • in. (Room, 54–55)

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue. (James, “Art of Fiction,” 388)

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When the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle,

  • ne remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal

creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live

  • in. (Room, 54–55)

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue. (James, “Art of Fiction,” 388)

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pencil stories

We shed the self our friends know us by and become part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers. (“Street Haunting,” 20) Am I here, or am I there? Or is the true self neither this nor that, neither here nor there, but something so varied and wandering that it is only when we give the rein to its wishes and let it take its way unimpeded that we are ourselves? (29)

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pencil stories

We shed the self our friends know us by and become part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers. (“Street Haunting,” 20) Am I here, or am I there? Or is the true self neither this nor that, neither here nor there, but something so varied and wandering that it is only when we give the rein to its wishes and let it take its way unimpeded that we are ourselves? (29)

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Today in an intellectualized and refined sense the citizen of the metropolis is “free” in contrast with the trivialities and prejudices which bind the small town person….It is obviously on the obverse of this freedom that, under certain circumstances, one never feels as lonely and as deserted as in this metropolitan crush of persons. For here, as elsewhere, it is by no means necessary that the freedom of man reflect itself in his emotional life only as a pleasant experience. Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903) To escape is the greatest of pleasures. (“Street Haunting,” 35)

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the aesthetics of the city

Let us dally a little longer, be content still with surfaces only—the glossy brilliance of the motor omnibuses; the carnal splendour of the butchers’ shops with their yellow flanks and purple steaks; the blue and red bunches

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  • dows. (23)

They do not grudge us, we are musing, our prosperity; when, suddenly, turning the corner, we come upon a bearded Jew, wild, hunger-bitten, glaring out of his misery; or pass the humped body of an old woman flung abandoned on the step of a public building. (26)

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the aesthetics of the city

Let us dally a little longer, be content still with surfaces only—the glossy brilliance of the motor omnibuses; the carnal splendour of the butchers’ shops with their yellow flanks and purple steaks; the blue and red bunches

  • f flowers burning so bravely through the plate glass of the florists’ win-
  • dows. (23)

They do not grudge us, we are musing, our prosperity; when, suddenly, turning the corner, we come upon a bearded Jew, wild, hunger-bitten, glaring out of his misery; or pass the humped body of an old woman flung abandoned on the step of a public building. (26)

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next

▶ Joyce, Portrait, at least through chap. 2

▶ Oxford World’s Classics edition: sine qua non

▶ commonplacing group B: by Sunday at 5 p.m.

▶ Joyce’s treatment of childhood ▶ say more about language (diction, syntax)