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GSC2403/3403

The rise of the modern

Patrick Morgan

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Gippsland/Distance
* Prerequisites second year: Two of GSC1401, GSC1402, GSC1403 or equivalent
* Prerequisites third year: Two second-level English subjects

Objectives On successful completion of this subject students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the literary differences and continuities throughout the period studied; identify and contextualise the particular ideological and cultural concerns of a range of modernist artists; demonstrate an ability to critically comment upon the effectiveness of experimental literary techniques; and show an understanding of the relevance of modernist modes in relation to post-modernism.

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 second year Essay (3000 words): 40%
* Examination (3 hours): 60%

Assessment third year Essay (3000 words): 40%
* Examination (3 hours): 60%
* Students will be expected to demonstrate a wider range of reading, and greater individual initiative and analytical grasp shall be required.

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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