Postgraduate Course: Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics (ENLI11181)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is the core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme.
This course provides an overview of key concepts and movements in modern thought with particular attention paid to close reading of writings and thinkers who have been influential for current understandings of culture. Areas to be studied will include liberalism, democracy, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminism. One or two key essays or chapters will be analysed in each weekly seminar. The course encourages students to focus in detail on one specific movement or thinker in their final assessment. |
| Course description |
1) Modernist Poetry I: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
* T.S. Eliot, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1917); The Waste Land (1922).
* Eliot, extracts from 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' and 'Ulysses, Order and Myth' (in Modernism: An Anthology of Sources).
2) Modernist Poetry II: W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems
* W.B. Yeats, selected poems, including: 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree', 'To Ireland in the Coming Times', 'No Second Troy', 'The Fascination of What's Difficult', 'September 1913', 'The Fisherman', 'Easter 1916', 'The Second Coming', 'Sailing to Byzantium', 'Leda and the Swan', 'Blood and the Moon', 'Coole Park, 1929', 'The Choice', 'Byzantium', 'The Man and the Echo'.
* Daniel Albright, 'Yeats and Modernism', in The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats, ed. Marjorie Howes, CUP: 2006 (available as Edinburgh University Library online resource).
3) Introduction to the Modernist Novel: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1901)
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1901).
* Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897); Virginia Woolf, 'Modern Fiction', 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' (1924) (all extracts in Modernism: An Anthology of Sources).
* Chinua Achebe, 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Heart of Darkness', Massachusetts Review, 18 (1977), available on JSTOR, and in the Norton Critical Edition, ed. Armstrong 2006: 336-349.
4) Modernism, Consciousness and Gender: D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1921), and Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
* D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1921).
* Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927).
* Bonnie Kime Scott, ed., The Gender of Modernism: An Anthology (1990): the general Introduction (1-18); and the Introductions to D.H. Lawrence (by Scott, 217-224) and Woolf (by Henke, 622-627).
5) Modernism and War: War Poetry and Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918)
* Selection from Poetry of the First World War, ed. Tim Kendall (OUP: 2014).
* Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918).
* Paul Fussell, 'A Satire of Circumstance', first chapter of The Great War and Modern Memory (OUP 1979).
6) Modernism and Time, Memory, History: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
* Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925).
* Henri Bergson, 'The Multiplicity of Conscious States ż The Idea of Duration', Chapter 2 of Time and Free Will (1889/1910).
4) Modernism and Politics: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scottish Quair (1932-4)
* Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scots Quair (1932-4).
* Georg Lukács, 'The Ideology of Modernism' (1957) and Fredric Jameson, 'On Interpretation' (1981), both anthologised in Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader ed. Eagleton and Milne, Wiley-Blackwell 1995.
8) Modernism, Art and Language: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
* James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and extracts from Finnegans Wake (available on Learn in the Handouts folder).
* John Paul Riquelme, 'Dedalus and Joyce Writing the Book of Themselves', in Teller and Tale in Joyce's Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives (Johns Hopkins UP 1983), collected in the Norton Critical Edition, ed. Riquelme 2007: 366-381.
9) Modernism and Everything: Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
* James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).
* Jeri Johnson, 'Introduction' to the Oxford World's Classics edition of Ulysses (ed. Johnson).
10) Modernism and its Legacies: Samuel Beckett, The Trilogy
* Samuel Beckett, 'The Trilogy' (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable)
* Peter Boxall, 'Introduction: Since Beckett', Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum 2009: 1-20).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
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| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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One essay of 4,000 words (100%) |
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
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Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
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Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
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One essay of 4,000 words (100%) |
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Learning Outcomes
| Students should develop the capacity to read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments. They should also acquire a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts. In addition, students should also possess a broad understanding of the main movements and schools in modern thought along with some knowledge of the relevance of pre-twentieth-century critical movements for contemporary theory. After completion of the course students should be able to read further and more widely in literary and cultural theory, having gained the requisite background knowledge and critical vocabulary.
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| Keywords | LaM1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Simon Cooke
Tel: (0131 6)51 3996
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Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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