This module studies poetry and fiction from 1890-1945. It explores the concept of Modernism, as a series of experimental styles, in relation to modernity, the social and political contexts Modernism responded to (such as technological change, urbanism, psychology, feminism, World War I).
Topics include:
Space and Time
Technology and the Cinema
Short Stories
Modernising Poetry
Intertextuality
Sexuality and Gender
Nationalism
Urbanism and Neo-Pastoral
The Great War
Consciousness and the Unconscious
'Mass-Civilization' and Minority Culture
Convenor
Dr Keith Williams
Teaching
This module will be taught by weekly two-hour seminar plus weekly one-hour lectures over 11 weeks. Seminars may include presentations, student-led discussion and/or class exercises.
Assessment
This module is assessed as follows:
Eight weekly journal entries (50%) [4,000 words in total]