Undergraduate Course: Modernism and the Market (ENLI10346)
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 complexities of modernist writers¿ engagements with the capitalist marketplace. A traditional view of modernist art understands it as antithetical to the brute, mechanical dictats of commodity culture. This course aims to qualify this position by foregrounding the ambivalence that surrounds modernist encounters with the market. Reading works by a selection of major Anglo-American novelists and poets, we will consider the mixture of horror and delight with which modernists surveyed a gleaming new landscape of consumer products and a capitalist economy violently transforming traditional ways of life; we will reflect on the ways in which modernists¿ anxieties and desires concerning the commodity status of their own work are internalised in their writing; and we will think through the relationship between modernism¿s challenge to meaning and representation and changes in the nature of money and the structure of the global economy in the early twentieth century. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | A MINIMUM of 4 college/university level literature courses at grade B or above (should include no more than one introductory level literature course). Related courses such as cross disciplinary, "Freshman Seminars", civilisation or creative writing classes are not considered for admission to this course.
Applicants should also note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission. In making admissions decisions preference will be given to students who achieve above the minimum requirement with the typical visiting student admitted to this course
having four or more literature classes at grade A.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Office directly for admission to this course **
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| 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: 15 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks: attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - at 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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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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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 |
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 3 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks: attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - at times to be arranged. |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
(
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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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, students will be able to:
-understand how a selection of major Anglo-American modernist novelists and poets engaged with economic issues
-draw on relevant theoretical approaches (including Marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, and the ¿new economic criticism¿) in order to analyse the relationships between economic pressures and the forms and contents of modernist writing
-reflect on the shared status of literary language and money as symbolic systems
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Assessment Information
One course essay of 2,500 words (25%)
One examination essay of 3,000 words (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
1. Introduction: Paul Delany, ¿Who Paid for Modernism?¿ (1999); Jean-Joseph Goux, from The Coiners of Language (1994 [1984])
2. E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910)
3. Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (1914) and five short reflections on money (1936)
4. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr (1918/1928)
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
6. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)
7. Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928)
8. Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (1934)
9. Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
10. Ezra Pound, selections from The Cantos (1929-1965); Richard Sieburth, ¿In Pound We Trust: The Economy of Poetry/The Poetry of Economics¿ (1987)
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Tel: (0131 6)50 3614
Email: pcrosthw@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk |
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