Postgraduate Course: Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond (ENLI11182)
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 semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme.
This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical theory with specific attention paid to questions of the politics of literary texts, the production of political identity through texts, and the contested questions of cultural politics through which texts are read. Topics to be covered include post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, sexual politics and cultural identity. |
| Course description |
1. Late Modernism, War, and Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1949)
Lyndsey Stonebridge, 'Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime' (2007)
2. Postwar Avant-Garde Theatre
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953) and Endgame (1957)
Theodor Adorno, 'Trying to Understand Endgame' (1961)
3. Neo-Modernist Poetry
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (1966)
Selections from Rod Mengham and John Kinsella, eds., Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2004)
Anthony Mellors, from Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne (2005)
4. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Fredric Jameson, 'Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1984)
5. Posthumanism and Cyberculture
J.G. Ballard, Crash (1973)
Jean Baudrillard, 'Ballard's Crash' (1976)
Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century' (1985)
6. Gender, Subjectivity, and Performance
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)
Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
7. Race, Trauma, and History
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Henry Louis Gates, 'Writing ¿Race¿ and the Difference it Makes' (1985)
Cathy Caruth, introduction to Trauma: Explorations in Memory (1995)
8. Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Cosmopolitanism
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Reading The Satanic Verses' (1989)
Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture (1994)
9. Globalization and Post-Marxism
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis (2003)
Jacques Derrida, from Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993)
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, from Empire (2000)
10. Climate, Landscape, and Environment
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
Lawrence Buell, 'Toxic Discourse' (1998)
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
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 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One essay of 4,000 words (100%)
-You may also submit a 1,000 word essay plan one month before your essay deadline. This essay plan will not receive a mark, but will form the basis of written feedback given by the course organiser with a view to helping you prepare for your summative assessment. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One essay of 4,000 words (100%)
-You may also submit a 1,000 word essay plan one month before your essay deadline. This essay plan will not receive a mark, but will form the basis of written feedback given by the course organiser with a view to helping you prepare for your summative assessment. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| Students should develop the capacity to read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments. They should be aware of current topics in literary theory and analysis and the ways in which literary texts intersect with historical, political, social and ethical questions and contexts. In addition to developing a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts and cultural phenomena, students should also be able to reflect critically on current practices and disputes in literary criticism.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | LaM2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Tel: (0131 6)50 3614
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: |
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