Postgraduate Course: Modernism before the War (ENLI11102)
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 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | In his introduction to Modern British Poetry (1922), Louis Untermeyer claims that the Victorian era ended in 1885. This course looks at that supposition, tracing ideas about the modern before more the emergence of famously modernist authors in the 1920s. We consider the loss of the idea of the national poet and the fragmentation of literature into small groups, limited print runs, and self-conscious &«movements&ª such as imagism and symbolism in poetry. We will look at changes in literary form after the collapse of the 3-volume novel, and the emergence of the story as a popular genre. Ideas about globalisation and anxieties about national and imperial cohesion, detection and surveillance, will be traced in the novels, and changing ideas about language, place and the visual in the poetry.
Texts will include a variety of poetry, novels by James, Conrad, Stevenson, and Buchan, short stories by Conan Doyle and a selection of contemporary essays. The first 6 weeks are a study of the development of poetry and the novel in the period, followed by 4 weeks of further contexts.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course is designed to be useful to a number of core programmes and pathways. It would offer another modernism option for the MSc in Literature and Modernity (though largely navigating around the texts on that core course), and one for the Victorian MSc R path.
The course gives students a grounding in the major literary developments in the later Victorian period, but also invites a reconsideration of the term "modernism", its place in literary history, and the intellectual and material conditions that underpin it. |
Assessment Information
| An essay of 4,000 words to be submitted as stated in the programme handbook |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Penny Fielding
Tel: (0131 6)50 3609
Email: Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk |
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