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Orlando: A Biography!$!Woolf, Virginia!$!!$!!$!1928
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Krapp’s Last Tape!$!Beckett, Samuel !$!!$!!$!1958
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Goodbye to Berlin!$!Isherwood, Christopher!$!!$!!$!1939
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock!$!Eliot, T.S.!$!!$!!$!1917
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y separately published work icon Return to Coolami Eleanor Dark , London : Collins , 1936 Z824242 1936 single work novel (taught in 2 units)
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The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant- Garde Letters!$!Stein, Gertrude!$!!$!!$!
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Selected poems!$!Pound, Ezra !$!!$!!$!
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The Wasteland!$!Eliot, T.S.!$!!$!!$!1922
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Ariel!$!Plath, Sylvia!$!!$!!$!1965
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man!$!Joyce, James!$!!$!!$!1916
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Description

Examines the main artistic movements which express what it is that makes the twentieth century distinctive in Anglophone societies. Involves investigations into such terms as modernism and postmodernism and their relationship with the experience of modernity as articulated in expressive practices ranging from 'High' to 'Low' culture, from art to the everyday. Although the emphasis is on literary work, the course will also refer to other media including painting, film/video, music.

Assessment

The major essay - 2500 words - 40% - assesses your ability to:

critically analyse texts from a range of genres;

write critical responses to issues raised in the course;

conduct and deploy research in literary studies;

contextualise and articulate your own critical position;

write a fluent and cogent essay with a clear line of argument.

The research task - 1000 words - 25% - assesses your ability to:

conduct and deploy research in literary studies;

identify connections between intellectual traditions and cultural

practices;

develop a critical argument in relation to debates raised in the course;

write clearly and fluently.

The class test - 20% - assesses your ability to:

critically analyse poetry and short experimental texts;

write clearly and fluently;

write critical responses to issues raised in the course;

develop a comparative argument;

contextualise and articulate your own critical position.

The tutorial participation - 15% - mark reflects the importance of students

capacity to:

prepare for tutorials by completing set questions in advance;

engage with the questions/tasks presented in the tutorial;

engage with and respond to the views of others in a respectful and

productive manner;

develop a critical argument in relation to debates raised in the course;

contextualise and articulate your own critical position;

read across a range of literary genres and registers.

Other Details

Offered in: 2008, 2007, 2006
Current Campus: Kensington Campus
Levels: Undergraduate
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