Module Details
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Title The Modernist World
Code ENGL728
Coordinator Prof SK Parmar
English
Sandeep.Parmar@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2019-20 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

To deepen student critical awareness of non-canonical and canonical modernist literature. To advance student understanding of the broader, global critical framework for defining modernist literary forms and traditions. To enable students to undertake individual research on lesser-known approaches and topics within modernist literature.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will be able to critically evaluate the historical contextual shifts within modernist literary criticism.

(LO2) Students will demonstrate an informed and systematic understanding of the shaping of international modernism via the study of the links between visual art and literature, travel writing, modernist dystopia, literary responses to space, literary avant-gardes and forms of dissemination such as the modernist salon and little magazines.

(LO3) Students will demonstrate advanced skills in textual analysis of the formal and generic complexity of a range of modernist texts.

(LO4) Students will be able to research and think critically and independently in order to produce sophisticated and original arguments about modernist literature and its contexts.

(S1) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills - written

(S3) Global citizenship - Cultural awareness

Syllabus
 

Authors are likely to include: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Green, Jean Rhys, H.D., Mina Loy, Hope Mirrlees and Nancy Cunard.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Seminar
Description: 2-hour seminars based on assigned readings and further research.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours   12

         12
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 138
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Assessment 1 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): Semester 2 (Weeks 8-12)  2500 word essay    50       
Assessment 2 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission This is an anonymous assessment Essay Assessment Schedule (When) Semester 2 (Weeks 8-12)  2500 words    50       

Recommended Texts
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