Module Details

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Title MODERNIST LITERATURE
Code ENGL232
Coordinator Dr SE Oliver
English
Sophie.Oliver@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 5 FHEQ Second Semester 30

Aims

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.


Learning Outcomes

(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.


Syllabus

 

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.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

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

The majority of teaching will be delivered face to face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours     11

    22

33
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 267
TOTAL HOURS 300

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 2: Dossier There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When): 2    50       
Plan for dossier         
Assessment 1 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When): 2    50       
Practice Essay.         

Recommended Texts

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