modern/postmodern literature

english 213 :: winter 2012

Assignments

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Course information
- Meets: MW, 11:30-1:20 p.m.
- Room: Condon 105
Instructor information
- Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges
- Padelford A305
- 206.543.4892
- kgb[at]u[dot]washington[dot]edu
Office Hours
- MW, 9:00-10:00, or by appt.

T.S. Eliot

"[W]hat happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new." ("Tradition and the Individual Talent ," 1922)