ATS3421 · Literature and modernism

Overview

In this unit you will examine some of the major writers and texts of modernist literature from the Anglophone world from 1900 to 1940. You will discuss the famous works of 'High' modernism (e.g. Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land), the literature produced by expatriate writers (e.g. Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys) as well as modernism's afterlife in contemporary literature. Our focus will be on the way modernist experiments revolutionised the depiction of character, rejected formal and stylistic literary conventions and responded to the various crises of the time (e.g. World War I, the 1929 stock market crash).

Areas of study: Literary studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify and analyse modernist techniques and themes;
2. interpret the relationship between modernist literary texts and their historical context;
3. apply and evaluate key theoretical and critical approaches to modernist literature;
4. produce high-level oral and written responses to modernist literature across multiple genres.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.