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 2018-19 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

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

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to critically evaluate the historical contextual shifts within modernist literary crititicism.
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.

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

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.

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

Seminar -

6 x 2 hour seminars


Teaching Schedule

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

        12
Timetable (if known)   6 x 2 hour seminars
 
         
Private Study 138
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
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opportunity
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CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
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final
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opportunity
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Coursework  2500 word essay  Semester 2 (Weekes 8 -12)  50  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 1 
Coursework  2500 word essay  Semester 2 (Weeks 8-12)  50  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 2 Notes (applying to all assessments) Two essay-length analyses of the modernist period, the titles of which will be decided by students in consulation with the tutor. 

Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
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