The rise of the modern
BT BW BB BS DT GA PA BC BP BDT BJ BY
Patrick Morgan
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GSC1401 and GSC1402 or equivalents
A study of some of the main modernist works from the 1870s onwards. The texts come from three periods: the transitional period from 1870 to the First World War, the initial modernist wave of the inter-war years, and later modernist works of the postwar period. Poems from the three periods will be selected from the Leonard anthology.
Assessment
Essay (2500 words): 40% * Examination (2 hours): 60%
Prescribed texts
Drama
Brecht B Mother Courage and Her Children Methuen, 1980
Ibsen H Hedda Gabler and other plays Penguin, 1971
Ionesco E Rhinoceros and other plays Penguin, 1970
Prose
Bellow S The dean's December Penguin, 1983
Boll H The clown Boyars, 1988
Conrad J The heart of darkness Bantam, 1981
Dostoyevsky F Notes from the underground Bantam, 1983
Mann T Death in Venice Penguin, 1955
Woolf V To the lighthouse Penguin, 1964
Poetry
Leonard J (ed.) Seven centuries of poetry in English OUP, 1991