1. Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present Session Four

2. Agenda  An outline of the notions of love and desire that we’ve encountered so far  Modernism and desire  Project practice thing

3. Desire in texts  Love relationships: courtship, marriage, adultery, … –Desire for unity between lover and beloved –Desire for desire, love of love: separation as the motor of desire –Desire for unity between body and soul –Desire of / for the body and of / for the soul

4. Desire in Texts  Love relationships: courtship, marriage, adultery, … –Triangular desire: imitatation and simulation of love –Homosocial desire: rivalry, friendship, … –Narrative desire: telling, listening, …

5. Desire for Texts  Narrative desire: telling, listening, reading, …  The desire for meaning and value

6. Modernism and Desire in Texts ”Araby”  The boy and Mangan’s sister  Love as a romance convention (knight, lady, quest)  Triangular desire: love as imitation, simulation, hyper real ”Bliss”  Bertha and Miss Fulton  Love as a desire for unity (of mind and feeling – knowing through ”signs”)  misreading

7. Modernism and Desire for Texts ”Araby” and ”Bliss” and our desire for meaning and value Modernist texts and their notorious difficulty

8. Project Practice Thing  Making connections within and between texts

9. ”Eveline” and ”The Boarding House”  Which texts from the course do these short stories remind you of?

10. ”Eveline” and ”The Boarding House” and Desire  In the texts  For the texts