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EL30MG MODERNISM

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30 Credit Points: 12 weeks

Course co-ordinator:  Dr T Baker

Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in programme year 3 or above who have passed 60 credit points in level 2 English courses, or by permission of the Programme Co-ordinator.

This course in Modernist literature examines a selection of the best literature from the early years of the twentieth century.  Seven major authors are represented by works which illustrate the characteristics of Modernism, and a further aim of the course is to convey a sense of the period and of the social and intellectual context in which the texts were written. Authors studied will include: Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and W B Yeats.

1 two-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week: Tue/Fri at 9

1 two-hour written examination (30%), In-course assessment: 1st essay (20%), 2nd essay (30%), group presentation (10%), and seminar work (10%).

Re-sit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).