Undergraduate - UnitATS3428 - Modern Jewish literature: writing across the languages

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Leah Garrett

Notes

Previously coded CLS3840

Synopsis

Over the last one hundred years, Jewish writers throughout the world have composed a remarkable array of works that deal with the modern experience. Students will analyze an array of modern Jewish creative writing and consider the following questions: How did the writers understand modernism and their own identities as modern writers? How did they deal with issues of Jewishness and the intersection of the Jewish and the modern? What were the influences in their writings from European and American literature? How did they place their work in the larger framework of Jewish literature? What language did they choose to write in and what was the significance of that choice?

Outcomes

On successfully completing this unit, students will;

be familiar with an array of modern Jewish writers,
have developed their tools of comparative analysis when researching authors who work in a broad range of languages,
have honed their evaluative tools when approaching writers composing at the same time but in different countries.

Third-year students will be expected to have developed a deeper understanding of the relationship between modernity and Jewish literature

Assessment

Written work (3500 words): 60%
Class Presentation and Participation (500 words): 20%
Test (1 hour): 20%

Workload requirements

One 2-hour seminar per week or 22 hours per semester.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Literary studies

Prerequisites

A first-year gateway unit in Literary Studies or Jewish studiesor permission