Postgraduate Course: Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond (ENLI11182)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting 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 | This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme.
This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical theory with specific attention paid to questions of the politics of literary texts, the production of political identity through texts, and the contested questions of cultural politics through which texts are read. Topics to be covered include post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, sexual politics and cultural identity. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students should develop the capacity to read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments. They should be aware of current topics in literary theory and analysis and the ways in which literary texts intersect with historical, political, social and ethical questions and contexts. In addition to developing a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts and cultural phenomena, students should also be able to reflect critically on current practices and disputes in literary criticism. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
1. Late Modernism, War, and Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1949)
Lyndsey Stonebridge, 'Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime' (2007)
2. Postwar Avant-Garde Theatre
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953) and Endgame (1957)
Theodor Adorno, 'Trying to Understand Endgame' (1961)
3. Neo-Modernist Poetry
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (1966)
Selections from Rod Mengham and John Kinsella, eds., Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2004)
Anthony Mellors, from Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne (2005)
4. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Fredric Jameson, 'Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1984)
5. Posthumanism and Cyberculture
J.G. Ballard, Crash (1973)
Jean Baudrillard, 'Ballard's Crash' (1976)
Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century' (1985)
6. Gender, Subjectivity, and Performance
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)
Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
7. Race, Trauma, and History
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Henry Louis Gates, 'Writing ¿Race¿ and the Difference it Makes' (1985)
Cathy Caruth, introduction to Trauma: Explorations in Memory (1995)
8. Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Cosmopolitanism
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Reading The Satanic Verses' (1989)
Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture (1994)
9. Globalization and Post-Marxism
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis (2003)
Jacques Derrida, from Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993)
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, from Empire (2000)
10. Climate, Landscape, and Environment
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
Lawrence Buell, 'Toxic Discourse' (1998) |
| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | LaM2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Tel: (0131 6)50 3614
Email: pcrosthw@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel: (0131 6)51 3988
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk |
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