2009 Course Handbook
ENGL320: Modernism
This unit examines the upheavals that took place in literature and culture 1900-1940. Issues to be discussed include imperialism and colonialism, the death of God, the cataclysm of the First World War, the crisis in representation and 'revolution of the word', changing gender relations, the nightmare of history, the propagation of myth. These will be examined through the manifestos of the major aesthetic movements (Impressionism, Imagism, Vorticism) and related themes (impersonality, anti-self). Texts to be studied include works from novelists and poets (Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Joyce and Woolf), philosophers (Nietzsche and Freud), visual artists (Lewis) and filmmakers (Bergman and Haneke).
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Paul Sheehan |
| Prerequisites: | 8cp from 200-level ENGL units |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of English |
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