Units of Study

ENGL2623 - Twentieth Century Literature: Modernism

Semester 2, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Mark Stephen Byron
Phone: +61 2 9351 2276
Email: mark.byron@sydney.edu.au

Description

Modernism is a complex phenomenon, categorising a range of innovative literary (and other artistic) works, produced principally in Europe, Britain and America in the early twentieth century. Modernist writers strove to find new ways of representing the momentous cultural and technological changes of this period. This unit focuses on representative Modernist texts, setting them in their larger historical and aesthetic contexts. It also investigates the history of Modernism as an academic subject and its various reappraisals.

Assessments

1x2500wd essay (55%) and 1x2hr exam (45%)

Textbooks

The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Joyce, Ulysses
Shaw, Heartbreak House
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Classes

2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

12 Junior credit points of English

Prohibitions

ENGL2023

 Tuesday

  10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm

ENGL2623

   

Lect

         

 Thursday

  10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm

ENGL2623

   

Lect 1

         

 

   

Lect 2

         
1 This class runs from Week 1 to Week 6
2 This class runs from Week 8 to Week 13

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