Postgraduate Coursework Units of Study
ENGL6976 - Masters of Modernism
Semester 2, 2012 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: Barry Spurr
Phone: +61 2 9351 2689
Email: barry.spurr@sydney.edu.au
Description
This unit of study is focused on a close consideration of major writers in the Modernist movement, from 1910 until the Second World War. The genesis and principles of Modernism will be considered, in the writings of W B Yeats and T S Eliot, in detailed readings of a range of their poetry, with particular attention to Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Yeats's "The Tower". Their influence on other, later writers will also be considered.
Assessments
1x4000wd essay (100%)
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edn
Classes
1x2-hr seminar/week
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