To equip you with the sophisticated reading skills needed to interpret modernist texts.
To examine previous critical responses to these texts and weigh arguments against each other.
To compare techniques developed by writers with those developed by artists in other media.
To develop a critical appreciation of experimental narrative techniques, their purposes, effects, and implications. 
To develop and deploy the nuanced forms of expression which will enable you to articulate your responses.

(LO1) Students will acquire analytical skills and vocabulary appropriate to university-level work and be able to use them appropriately in relation to a range of sources from different historical periods and social contexts.

(LO2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and be able to participate constructively in group discussions.

(LO3) Students will gain awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use.

(LO4) Students will have the ability to write well-constructed prose, reflecting appropriate scholarly knowledge and independent response within a sustained argument.

(LO5) Students will have knowledge of one or more specific literary historical periods and the language and genres associated with it/them.

(LO6) Students will have the ability to demonstrate research and evaluative skills that support wider literary or linguistic analysis, criticism, and/or data collection.

(LO7) Students will have developed the confidence to discuss work or artefacts in different media from the period.

(LO8) Students will be able to discuss the implications of various narrative and poetic styles and techniques (eg. interior monologue, allusion, 'unreliable' narration, free indirect discourse, free verse, stream of consciousness).

(S1) Students will gain the ability to analyse and interpret sophisticated texts closely and critically.

(S2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in both written and spoken forms.

(S3) Students will gain the ability to write with appropriate subject knowledge, using appropriate approaches and terminology.

(S4) Students will gain the ability to identify and assess relevant information and data, and argue independently in response.

(S5) Students will gain the ability to critically evaluate research materials.

(S6) Students will gain the ability to undertake independent research, and to develop a sense of research attitude.

This module allows you to explore the work of experimental writers responding to the radical changes of the early twentieth-century. You might read Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Mina Loy, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and others. Workshops might address empire, visual art, fashion, time, psychoanalysis, sexuality, performance and modernist magazines.

This module will be taught by 1 x weekly 1-hour tutorial with small group (F2F or online, as can be accommodated), and 2 x weekly 1-hour remote online workshops with whole cohort.