An exploration of challenges faced by women musicians, visual artists, dancers, and writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the creative solutions employed by women in the fine arts to these challenges. All of our readings are autobiographical, and therefore we focus on how women choose to articulate their lives as artists. Cross-listed as WST 262. We also seek to situate the works in various historical contexts that shed light on Joyce's fiction, including the rise of modernism, Irish nationalism, Anglo-Irish relations, English colonialism, Joyce's musical background and its relation to his fiction, and Joyce's life. Topics in World Literature.
Topics vary from year to year.
Recent topics focus on authors, periods, genre or themes such as drama, Romantic literature, or musicians in literature. May be repeated for credit. The novel from the beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works studied include those of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Austen. The Modern Novel.