Undergraduate Course: Modernism and Empire (ENLI10338)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course explores the relationship between European imperialism and literary modernism, focusing primarily on British colonial contexts and legacies (in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific), but also engaging with other European empires (such as the French Caribbean and the Belgian Congo). We will analyse a range of texts published from the 1890s through to 1960, exploring the centrality of empire to various phases of literary modernism. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 12 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
75 %,
Coursework
25 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, through contributions to group discussion, independent reading, and assessed and non-assessed work, students will be able to:
-Understand the ways in which empire and its legacies has contributed to certain thematic and stylistic innovations in British (and other) literary modernism(s).
-Develop a critical vocabulary for analysing the thematics and aesthetics of modernist writing, drawing upon a range of theory and criticism (including, inter alia, formalist, Marxist, postmodernist and postcolonial perspectives).
-Analyse the active contribution of writers and cultures on the colonial 'periphery' to developments in (and critiques of) literary modernism.
-Articulate (in written and oral forms) a considered, informed sense of the breadth and range of responses to imperialism in course texts.
-Reflect on good learning practice.
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Assessment Information
One course essay (worth 25% of overall course mark)
and one take home exam essay(worth 75% of overall course mark). |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Week 1: Course introduction; Joseph Conrad, 'An Outpost of Progress' (1897); Rudyard Kipling, 'Regulus' (1917).
Week 2: Miscegenation and degeneration: Rudyard Kipling, 'Kidnapped' (1888); Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Ebb Tide'; Jack London, 'Goodbye Jack' (1909); W. Somerset Maugham, 'Rain' (1921).
Week 3: Ezra Pound and 'The East': Pound's ideogrammatic poetry and the Chinese Cantos; Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali poems (1912).
Week 4: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924).
Week 5: Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935).
Week 6: Leonard Woolf, 'Pearls and Swine' (1921) and selected letters; George Orwell, 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936).
Week 7: Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (1937); selected stories by Katherine Mansfield.
Week 8: READING WEEK.
Week 9: Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939; using the Bloodaxe translation, Notebook of a Return to my Native Land (1995)).
Week 10: Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson (1939) and 'Umaru' (1921).
Week 11: Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1960).
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Week 1: Joseph Conrad, 'An Outpost of Progress' (1897); Rudyard Kipling, 'Regulus' (1917).
Week 2: Rudyard Kipling, 'Kidnapped' (1888); Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Ebb Tide'; Jack London, 'Goodbye Jack' (1909); W. Somerset Maugham, 'Rain' (1921).
Week 3: Pound's ideogrammatic poetry and the Chinese Cantos; Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali poems (1912).
Week 4: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924).
Week 5: Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935).
Week 6: Leonard Woolf, 'Pearls and Swine' (1921) and selected letters; George Orwell, 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936).
Week 7: Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (1937); selected stories by Katherine Mansfield.
Week 8: READING WEEK.
Week 9: Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939; using the Bloodaxe translation, Notebook of a Return to my Native Land (1995)).
Week 10: Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson (1939) and 'Umaru' (1921).
Week 11: Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1960).
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| Study Abroad |
n/a |
| Study Pattern |
12 x two hour seminars; students also meet weekly independently of CO in automonous learning groups |
| Keywords | modernism; empire; race; imperialism |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Michelle Keown
Tel: (0131 6)50 6856
Email: michelle.keown@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk |
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