Modernism and Modernity module (EN32005)
Credits
30
Module code
EN32005
Level
3
School
School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Discipline
Humanities
- Level 3
- Semester 1
- English - School of Humanities
- Coursework 100%
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]
- One essay (50%) [3,000 words]
Reading
Featured Writers
- T.S. Eliot
- James Joyce
- D.H. Lawrence
- Katherine Mansfield
- Poets of the Great War
- H.G. Wells
- Rebecca West
- Virginia Woolf
- W.B. Yeats