Coursework Essay [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,5]
Group Presentation [Learning Outcome 4]

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 Dos Passos, Mansfield, Joyce, and Beckett. We seek to locate our material within the broader context of literary attempts to move away from the C19 paradigm of Realism. 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, workshops 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).

Library
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Samuel Beckett Molloy London (Calder) 1959.
Katherine Mansfield Bliss and Other Stories London (Wordsworth Editions) 1999.
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man London (Penguin Classics) 2003.
John Dos Passos Three Soldiers London (Penguin C20 Classics) 1997.
Malcolm Bradbury, James MacFarlane (eds.) Modernism, London (Penguin) 1979
Peter Childs Modernism, London (Routledge) 2000.
Michael Levenson (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, Cambridge (U.P.) 1999.
Howard Booth, Nigel Rigby Modernism and Empire, Manchester (U.P.) 2000.
Randall Stevenson Modernist Fiction, Brighton (Harvester) 1992.