Postgraduate Course: Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics (ENLI11181)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Modernist Aesthetics is the semester 1 core course for the MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme. The course explores key texts and topics in modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century, alongside cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and a range of critical and theoretical approaches. |
| Course description |
Modernist Aesthetics explores what the terms modernism and modernity mean in the context of twentieth-century literature. It introduces students to some of the landmarks of literary modernism and through an emphasis on close reading invites students to consider how modern writers experimented with style and form to respond to their historical moment.
Each weeks focus on a writer will be supplemented with a critical reading that requires students to engage with various intellectual contexts and disciplinary fields at the cutting edge of modernist studies, such as psychoanalysis, feminism, historicism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, affect theory, the medical humanities, ecocriticism and animal studies.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on the MSc in Literature and Modernity. No outside subject enrolments or auditors are permitted. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only available to students on the MSc in Literature and Modernity. No outside subject enrolments or auditors are permitted. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| 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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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One essay of 4,000 words (100%) |
| Feedback |
Students will have an opportunity to receive written feedback on a short essay outline during the second half of the course.
Students are also welcome to visit the tutor in office hours or by appointment to discuss their work and receive oral feedback on the outline and/or assessment.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Read and critically engage with complex literary, critical, and theoretical texts.
- Acquire a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts.
- Develop a broad understanding of the main movements and schools in modernist literature and thought along with some knowledge of pre-twentieth-century literary and critical movements.
- Read further and more widely in literary and cultural theory, having gained the requisite background knowledge and critical vocabulary.
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Reading List
Week 1: Susan Stanford Friedman, Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism¿
Week 2: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Week 3: Hope Mirrlees, Paris
Week 4: Katherine Mansfield selected short stories
Week 5: T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land.
Week 7: James Joyce, Ulysses (Selected episodes: ¿Calypso¿, Lotus Eaters Hades, Lestrygonians Wandering Rocks¿, Nausicaa, Penelope)
Week 8: Claude McKay, selected poems
Week 9: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Week 10: Willa Cather, The Professors House
Week 11: Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | LaM1,literature,modernity,modernism,aesthetics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Peter Adkins
Tel: (0131 6)51 7112
Email: Peter.Adkins@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lina Gordyshevskaya
Tel:
Email: pgordysh@ed.ac.uk |
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