MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
GSC2403
The rise of the modern
Patrick Morgan
8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Gippsland/Distance +
Prerequisites: GSC1401 and GSC1402 or equivalents
Synopsis 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 (3000 words): 50% + Examination (3 hours): 50%
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
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