RESITUATING MODERNISM
ENG3RSM
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
This subject offers an introduction to the British literary landscape of the interwar years - one of the most innovative and exciting periods of British writing. Going beyond a narrow band of high-modernist texts, you will re-situate Modernist writing as a multitude of literary responses to modern life - varied, contradictory and highly contested - and introduce central concepts used in current scholarship, such Transnational and Intermodernism, the middlebrow etc. This will help you examine some assumptions surrounding high-brow fiction, academic practices and the literary canon. Throughout this subject, you will discuss literature in relation to political events and cultural influences, such as World War I, psychoanalysis, the Bright Young Things, the flapper, feminism, Marxism, etc. You will discuss aesthetic innovations, such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation, documentary literature, the treatment of time, etc. And you'll encounter key literary figures, magazines and artistic groups like Bloomsbury and the Neo-Pagans.
School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Juliane Roemhild
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: N/A
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: 60 credit points of level 2 subjects or coordinator's approval
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
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