Modern English literature: modernism and postmodernism
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
8 points * 1-hour lecture (or film), plus a 1.5-hour seminar per week * Second semester * Clayton
This subject will attempt to define some of the major cultural modernist and postmodernist movements of the twentieth century. In focusing on some of the central figures of `high modernism' like Eliot, Joyce and Woolf, the subject will explore their relationships with anthropology and psychology, painting, music and science, within the larger intellectual and interdisciplinary context of modernism. From this base, we will then examine some of the preoccupations of three postmodern texts - Flaubert's parrot, Charades and The joke.
Assessment
Seminar paper (1000 words): 20% * Short essay: (1500 words): 20% * Long essay (2500 words): 40% * Examination (1 hour): 20%
Prescribed texts
Conrad J Victory Penguin
Eliot T S Selected poems Faber
Joyce J Ulysses Penguin
Yeats W B Selected poetry Pan or
Yeats W B Collected poems Papermac
Lawrence D H Sons and lovers Penguin
Woolf V To the lighthouse Penguin
Barnes J Flaubert's parrot Picador
Kundera M The joke Faber
Hospital J Charades Penguin