Welcome to Module 8! (2.5 – 3 hours)
Here’s what you need to do this week:
- Please read:
– Anthology, Vol. 6: “Unit 1: Modernism” (pp. 3540-3543) and “Virginia Woolf” (pp. 4012-4013);
– A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf, 1929, Introduction (pp. 7-12), and Chapter 2 (pp. 31-43). The text is also available as a pdf, below, and you can get a paper copy at the Newman Library and NYPL.
- Watch the lecture below (both parts, this week).
- Fill out the exit ticket for this lecture so I can count your participation.
- Do your Google doc duty.
Here is Part 1 of the lecture (captions included):
Here is Part 2 of the lecture (captions included):
Below are the PDF slides (the last two slides, on outline methodology, are explained in this video (also under Methodology, Main Menu):
Wanna do more?
- Crash Course European History on Modern Thought an Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjpTjeGuZc&ab_channel=CrashCourse
- A Room of One’s Own is an essay, even if it sounds quite different from an academic one. But it has a strong thesis statement, doesn’t it? Here’s some advice on how to write a strong thesis statement yourself, when the time comes (quite soon!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-Blaix9uU&ab_channel=Chegg
- The trailer to The Hours, by dir. Stephen Daldry (2002) with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Dj-v7L7RI&ab_channel=MarcusWrightHeroe
- The trailer to Mrs Dalloway, by dir. Marleen Gorris (1997) with Vanessa Redgrave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Iv7r-aRWs&ab_channel=mostern
- An article about the current polemic on Virginia Woolf and her addition to a “racism list” by Camden Council, cancel culture, etc. : https://unherd.com/thepost/virginia-woolf-predicted-her-own-cancellation/
- The trailer to the film “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Ernest Lehman, 1966, with Elizabth Taylor and Richard Burton, adapted from Edward Albee’s 1962 eponymous play, and on the theme of the difficulties of marriage. (The title is a pun on the nursery rhyme “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIUGN8CGjE&ab_channel=MovieclipsClassicTrailers
