Modernisms

ENGL60451 Modernisms 30 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Liam Harte Unit coordinator Ben Harker Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0 <div class="PSEDITBOX" style="width: 100%; height: expression('50px'); min-height: 50px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px; vertical-align: top;"> The aim of the course is to introduce students to study of the 1900-1940 period at Masters level. The module addresses work by writers in the context of current and emergent approaches to literary modernism. More specifically, we will think about how recent work in modernist studies – for example informed by queer, gender studies, Marxist or post-colonial approaches – is reconfiguring the field. The module addresses both canonical and non-canonical fiction, poetry and non-fiction in addition to key critical and theoretical works. Our discussions will focus on the intersections between modernist and experimental literary form and questions of power, identity, class, empire and democracy.  </div>  The aim of the course is to introduce students to study of the 1900-1940 period at Masters level. The module addresses work by writers in the context of current and emergent approaches to literary modernism. More specifically, we will think about how recent work in modernist studies – for example informed by queer, gender studies, Marxist or post-colonial approaches – is reconfiguring the field. The module addresses both canonical and non-canonical fiction, poetry and non-fiction in addition to key critical and theoretical works. Our discussions will focus on the intersections between modernist and experimental literary form and questions of power, identity, class, empire and democracy.    Students who complete the module will be able:<ul> <li> To discuss and explore issues of modernism and modernisms (in relation to the post-Second World War definitions of writing of the period 1900-1940);</li> <li> To engage productively with poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the period;</li> <li> To test hypotheses about literary movements and writing in regional, national and transnational contexts;</li> <li> ·To bring to bear relevant theoretical approaches and writing on modernism.</li></ul>  <ul> <li> Competence in the range of current debates in modernist literary studies;</li> <li> Have the ability to use, and relate the texts discussed to debates in, relevant theoretical and secondary texts on modernism and ‘marginal’ modernisms;</li> <li> Have an ability to construct and defend complex arguments through textual evidence (literary and / or theoretical), in written assessment and in seminar discussions;</li> <li> Be able to communicate effectively with peers in seminar and small group situations;</li> <li> Be able to demonstrate appropriate written skills for work contributing to the final classification of the MA.</li></ul> <ul> <li> Ability to debate and consider the utility and definition of a major movement in literary history and debates on its meaning, utility and reconceptualization;</li> <li> Have an ability both to read closely with discrimination and to relate literary texts to wider cultural and theoretical issues;</li> <li> Have enhanced skills of comparison and analysis;</li> <li> Have the ability to compare different kinds of texts in seminar discussion and in written work.</li></ul> <ul> <li> Show evidence of skills in close reading necessary to appreciate the complexities of the primary and secondary texts;</li> <li> Have skills in the use of all relevant library resources, databases and search engines, to locate material for discussion and assessment purposes;</li> <li> Have an ability to plan and carry out independent research projects shown in the assessed coursework essay;</li> <li> Have the ability to participate productively in the seminar discussions;</li> <li> The development of enhanced analytical skills and skills of written and verbal communication and argument.</li></ul> <ul> <li> Ability to engage with, critique and write well about a complex and diverse area;</li> <li> Have the ability to participate productively in the seminar discussions;</li> <li> Have the ability and to work independently (as shown in the assessed essay);</li> <li> The development of enhanced analytical skills and skills of written and verbal communication and argument.</li></ul> Other The completion of this course will hopefully leave all students with refined abilities to think, to write and to converse in ways that are critical, self-critical, rigorous and independent-minded. The advanced study of modernisms, which is also an intellectual end in itself, will have nurtured and enhanced those aptitudes; but they can be applied in all forms of work and in many other walks of life after students have completed their programmes of study. 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 100% <ul> <li>Office hours to discuss developing essays plus individual tuitions in office hours and by appointment</li> <li>Group Essay discussion at the end of the course </li> <li>Summative feedback on essays</li></ul> Y DiBattista, Maria and Lucy McDiarmid, eds., High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (1996)Eysteinsson, Astradur, The Concept of Modernism (1992)Mao, Douglas and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Bad Modernisms (2006)Wallace, Jeff, Beginning Modernism (2011)Scott, Bonnie Kime, The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990)Stevens, Hugh and Caroline Howlett, Modernist Sexualities (2000)Wollaeger, Mark and With Matt Eatough, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (2012)   Lectures 33 0 267