Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202441
British Fiction from the Twentieth Century to the Present
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK 1106
Office Hours: M 1–3 and by appointment
Phone: 0 2218 1780
Literary
Exhibition
For the final paper, you will be
curating an online exhibition for the course 2202441 British Fiction
from the Twentieth Century to the Present. There are two components to
the final paper (e-mailed to me): 1) the exhibition design, items and
labels (if available, provide link to its online presence), and 2) the
paper. Here is an opportunity to look at the overall picture of British
fiction from the last century to the present, and to focus specifically
on a work, a period, or a topic within that literary span to tell the
story of this remarkable creative production that has influenced the
world, continues to do so, and is also influenced by the outrageously
diverse and dynamic world in turn.
This final project is also an opportunity to assess the course. What has been skipped and skimmed over that needs more careful attention? What real world events could have been taken advantage of in the learning experience that was missed? What resources (audio, film, live theater, author invitations, guest speakers, virtual museums, online library collections, literary festivals, debate, conferences, tours and research) could be used that haven't? What aspects of the texts need further illustration and explanation? How might an audience or a reader be encouraged to read, learn, participate, to think creatively and critically, or to contribute their questions or knowledge? What kinds of viewing and learning experiences do you want audiences to have? How will you map out the exhibition experience in digital space and over time? Do you want audience interaction and if so, how to provide and perhaps document it?
Scroll
down for sample exhibitions with curator notes to get your juices going.
Quick View
Your Digital Literary
Exhibition
The exhibition design component of your final paper demonstrates your vision. It basically provides the display element of your concept and can be attached to your paper component as an appendix. This includes
Some questions to ask yourself as you plan your exhibition on British Fiction.
Some information and tips on writing exhibition texts.
Sebastião Salgado, Genesis, International Center for Photography Chris Jordan, Running the Numbers, 2006–present |
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Some
information and tips on writing labels.
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The
Paper
The 2–4-page paper component is an argument for your British Fiction
exhibit design. The online exhibition design needs to be fully
remote-learning enabled.
Sample Exhibitions
Explore
some of the following exhibits and think about the items and engagements
to illuminate British fiction texts that you can provide in your own.
Note that our six-item course literary exhibit is much smaller and more
focused in scope, with an emphasis on illuminating the text rather than
on the life and work of the writer.
Items and Highlights | Exhibition
Curator Notes |
Peer
Comments/Guest Book |
'Dulce
et Decorum Est': A Close Reading Items
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Santanu Das: Today, the
manuscript of 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' teases us with its
combination of meaning and materiality as we find his 'large and
sloping' hand thinking and feeling its way through the shape and
sound of words with many crossings-out and revisions into his
'charred' senses. At one point, Owen replaces the word 'clawing'
with 'haunting'. The poem itself is a 'haunting', marked as much
by his memories of the front as by his growing sense of duty as a
war-poet: 'My subject is War and the Pity of War. The poetry is in
the pity'. Yet, in a paradox characteristic of the First World
War, the war-haunted document is also an ode to literary
friendship forged at Craiglockhart. |
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An
Introduction to Animal Farm Items
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John
Sutherland: George Orwell is famous as a political writer,
essayist, thinker and, supremely, novelist. One can easily
overlook another consistent feature in Orwell’s life—his desire to
be a small-holding farmer of an old-fashioned ‘English’ kind. It
crops up in rather odd ways. Living in London during the Second World War, for example, he kept chickens in the backyard (his wife, Eileen, rather resented getting up at dawn, after a night of air-raid alarms to feed them). His longest-lasting residence was a cottage in Wallington, near London, where he kept chickens, goats and geese (a fowl he particularly liked). |
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Angela
Carter: Gothic Literature and The Bloody Chamber Items
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Greg Buzwell: Like every great author of Gothic fiction, Angela Carter was blessed with an intensely vivid and extremely dark imagination. Gothic imagery permeates all of her work but nowhere more so than in The Bloody Chamber (1979), a collection of tales that delights in moonlit forests, graveyards, isolated castles, locked rooms, guttering candles and the howling of wolves in the night. The stories in The Bloody Chamber primarily have their origins in fairy tales, but Carter gave these old and much-loved narratives a radical twist, providing a feminist perspective to stories in which the female characters were young, demure and helpless or else old, haggard and witch-like. As Carter commented in her essay ‘Notes from the Front Line’, ‘I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode’. Carter also took inspiration from Gothic literature’s rich heritage, adapting themes and motifs from classic tales of terror and giving them her own uniquely individual slant. | |
Faces of Frida Items
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Jesús
Garcia: It's a true global effort. Frida's name kept coming
up as a top contender when we started to think of what artist
would be the best to feature in a retrospective. There's so much
of her that was not known and could still be explored from an
artistic perspective and life experience. |
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Virginia Woolf: Art,
Life and Vision Items
Highlights and Features
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Frances
Spalding: This exhibition introduces you to aspects of
Virginia Woolf's life and work, more or less in a chronological
order, but it also contains awareness of new interests in her work
and hopefully introduces things that you won't have heard of
before. |
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Agatha Christie:
Unfinished Portrait Items
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Alice
Graham: In order to put this exhibition together, I worked
very closely with the Agatha Christie archive and with Agatha
Christie's grandson. It was very important to really understand
the character of Agatha and bring that out through the exhibition,
so there was a lot of work done in trying to understand her
character before we even began. I had the privilege of searching
the archive for photographs to represent her entire life and also
looking through all her papers, her letters, everything she wrote
really, if it's in her private archive to put quotes together with
the pictures. So the idea is you feel like Agatha is actually
showing you around the exhibition. I've become very fond of Agatha through the process of curating this exhibition. She was such a fun lady, and she's sort of like the grandma we all want really. You know she had this amazing career, but actually, behind the scenes, she was loving and great fun. |
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Joseph
Conrad: Twixt Land and Sea |
Katarzyna Jakimiak and Elzbieta Szymanska: The title of the exhibition, derived from a collection of Conrad's short stories Twixt Land and Sea (1912), is meant to serve as a metaphor. However, it does not intend to refer only to life choices of the writer and places where his characters function. The title opens the space between the land and the wide sea for dreams, feelings, moral choices, remembrances and—above all—the art. Conrad will guide you through this realm with fragments of his works and letters. | |
The Powerful Potato |
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Football Boots: The
Evolution of Soccer in Footwear |
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Q?rius |
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Sounds of the Arctic |
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth |
Below
are exhibition designs under construction. Share your ongoing project,
if you like, and give feedback to other projects being developed. E-mail me your link, notes and comments so I can
post them here.
Exhibitions
in Progress
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