Postgraduate Course: Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11) (ENLI11185)

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	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course explores major works of Anglo-American literary modernism in relation to the advanced visual art of the period (including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, and installation). By approaching modernist novels and poems in this way, the course aims to: clarify students¿ understanding of the ways in which such texts challenge nineteenth-century conventions of meaning and representation; highlight the close connections that existed between literature and the visual arts, and between Britain, the United States, and continental Europe, during the modernist period; foreground the visual impact of typographic design in key modernist texts and the conjunction of text and image in celebrated modernist artworks; think through the idea of the ¿avant-garde¿ and examine the distinctive features of the major avant-garde movements; and draw attention to the importance of the manifesto as a key point of contact between modernist literature and art, and an important genre in its own right. Each week, we will examine a particular modernist cultural movement via selected writings and artworks, with the emphasis on making comparisons with artistic forms in order to deepen our understanding of literary style, technique, and theme. In addition, we will take advantage of our location and make a class visit to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which has exceptionally strong holdings of Dada and Surrealist art, as well as work by Picasso, Braque, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Paolozzi. *This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited
Course description	1. Introduction to the course 2. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Writing: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) and extract from ¿Modern Fiction¿ (1919); Joseph Conrad, preface to The Nigger of the ¿Narcissus¿ (1897) Art: Claude Monet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Vincent Van Gogh, Roger Fry 3. Cubism Writing: Gertrude Stein, Three Lives (1909); Guillaime Appollinaire, from The Cubist Painters (1913) Art: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris 4. Futurism and Dada Writing: Mina Loy, selections from The Lost Lunar Baedeker (1997); F.T. Marinetti, ¿The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism¿ (1909); Tristan Tzara, from ¿Dada Manifesto¿ (1918) Art: Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch 5. Imagism and Vorticism Writing: Selections from Imagist Poetry (2001) (including Richard Aldington, H.D., Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound); preface to Some Imagist Poets (1915); extract from Blast (1914) Art: Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein, Helen Saunders, C.R.W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear 6. Surrealism Writing: Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936); André Breton, from ¿The First Manifesto of Surrealism¿ (1924) Art: Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer 7. Precisionism, the Stieglitz Circle, and transition Writing: Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930); Eugene Jolas, ¿Suggestions for a New Magic¿ (1927) and ¿Proclamation¿ (1929) Art: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O¿Keefe, Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper 8. The Harlem Renaissance Writing: Langston Hughes, selected poems; Alain Locke, from introduction to The New Negro (1925) Art: Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Beauford Delaney 9. Abstract Expressionism and the New York School Writing: Selections from The New York Poets: An Anthology (2004) (including John Ashbery, Frank O¿Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Shuyler); James Shuyler, ¿Poet and Painter Overture¿ (1959) Art: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko 10. Pop Writing: J.G. Ballard, Crash (1973); Richard Hamilton, ¿For the Finest Art, Try Pop¿ (1961) Art: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 6
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One essay of 4000 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	Detailed written feedback on optional formative assessment (essay plan) and summative assessment (essay). Both within 15 working days of submission.
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Understand the key ways in which literature interacted with the visual arts during the modernist period. Articulate the distinctive characteristics of the major modernist cultural movements. Compare and contrast the ways in which literature and visual art make meaning Analyse the formal and thematic elements of major examples of literary modernism in relation to works of visual art