WEEK-TO-WEEK SYLLABUS:

Week 1 (February 16): Introduction to Woolf

Reading: “22 Hyde Park Gate,” “Old Bloomsbury”

Week 2 (February 23): Woolf and theories of materiality

Reading: short fiction – “The Mark on the Wall,” “Solid Objects,” “The Fascination of the Pool,” “A Simple Melody”

Week 3 (March 2): Woolf and the poetics of space and time

Reading: Mrs Dalloway

Week 4 (March 9): Woolf and psychoanalysis

Reading: To the Lighthouse

Week 5 (March 16): Woolf, queer theory, and the concepts of identity

Reading: Orlando

Week 6 (March 23): Woolf and feminism

Reading: A Room of One´s Own

Week 7 (March 30): Woolf and animal studies

Reading: Flush,“Kew Gardens”

Week 8 (April 6): Woolf, ecocritical thought and consumerism

Reading: essays “An Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car,” “The Docks of London,” “Flying over London,” “Thunder at Wembley,” “Oxford Street Tide”

Week 9 (April 13): Woolf and the “proto-postmodern” and “postcolonial” novel

Reading: The Waves

Week 10 (April 20): Woolf and posthumanism

Reading: “Time Passes” (To the Lighthouse), natural interludes from The Waves, essay “The Sun and the Fish”

Week 11 (April 27): Woolf and her personal philosophy

Reading: “A Sketch of the Past,” “The New Biography,” “On Being Ill,”

Week 12 (May 4): Woolf, the war and pacifism

Reading: Three Guineas

Week 13 (May 11): Woolf and community

Reading: Between the Acts