Coursework Essay 2000 words 80% [Learning Outcomes 1-3]
Group Presentation 20% [Learning Outcome 4]

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20% Practical Exam

In this module we explore Modernist prose writing of the first half of the Twentieth Century, looking at themes, forms and styles in novels, and other types of narrative text, by authors including Conrad, Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, V. Woolf, Dos Passos, Mansfield, Joyce, Stein. We seek to locate our material within the broader context of literary attempts to move away from the C19 paradigm of Realism, in search of new forms of Realist representation. We ask in what sense these writings can be regarded as responses to the increasingly crisis-ridden developments of that period in the social and cultural spheres, and enquire in what way this literature contributes to opening up new perspectives on subject identity and 'the real'.

Teaching will be through lectures, and seminars. You will work independently (on research, preparation of lectures, seminars and seminar presentations) and in pairs or small groups (on seminar assignments and presentations).

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16% Sheduled Learning and Teaching Activity
84% Guided Independent Learning

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, London (Penguin) 2007
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers, London (Penguin 2006)
Katherine Mansfield Bliss and Other Stories, London (Wordsworth Editions) 1999
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, London (Penguin) 2003.
John Dos Passos Three Soldiers London (Penguin) 1997.
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier, New York (Norton) 2012
Malcolm Bradbury, James MacFarlane (eds.) Modernism, London (Penguin) 1979
Peter Childs Modernism, London (Routledge) 2000.
Michael Levenson (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, Cambridge (Cambridge U.P.) 1999.
Howard Booth, Nigel Rigby Modernism and Empire, Manchester (Manchester U.P.), 2000.
Randall Stevenson Modernist Fiction, Brighton (Harvester), 1992.

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1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THEMES AND FORMS OF MODERNIST PROSE WRITING AND SHOW AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS LITERARY STYLE IN CONNECTION WITH DEVELOPMENTS IN ANGLO-EUROPEAN AND -AMERICAN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY WRITING Knowledge & Understanding

2. INTERPRET MODERNIST PROSE TEXTS AS RESPONSES TO MODERN CULTURE IN CRISIS
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3. EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL OF MODERNIST WRITING FOR OPENING UP NEW PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY AND REALITY
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4. DEMONSTRATE ASSURANCE IN PRESENTING COMPLEX IDEAS IN A SMALL GROUP FORMAT Communication