eng2rem re situating modernism
RE-SITUATING MODERNISM: DECOLONISING CONTEXTS
ENG2REM
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Modernism is the name given retrospectively to a range of early twentieth-century experimental and avant-garde trends in literature and the arts. Appreciation of its aesthetic theories and practices has been very influential in the institutionalisation of Western literary criticism and the histories of European canon-formation. In this subject modernism and variously modernist writing in English are re-situated in the contexts of colonial and post-independence cultures and experiences of gender, race, class, sexuality, desire, ethnicity, nation and expatriation. Students examine the ways in which writers have negotiated and shaped modernist practices of representation, tensions between the narrative possibilities of modernism and realism and the recent Western anthropological, psychological and philosophical theories which often informed modernist practices of representation.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorSusan Thomas
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites 30 credit points of first-year English
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ENG3REM
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Readings | Disgrace, | Prescribed | Coetzee, J. | RANDOM HOUSE |
Readings | Five Bells | Prescribed | Jones, G., | VINTAGE |
Readings | Heart of darkness, | Prescribed | Conrad, J. | PENGUIN |
Readings | Mrs Dalloway | Prescribed | Woolfe V., | ANY EDITION |
Readings | The aunt's story, | Prescribed | White, P. | RANDOM HOUSE |
Readings | Things fall apart, | Prescribed | Achebe, C. | HEINEMANN |
Readings | Voyage in the dark, | Prescribed | Rhys, J. | PENGUIN |
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