Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 0 |
This is an optional subject.
Aims
Virginia Woolf stated that “in or about December, 1910, human character changed.” This thought-provoking assertion links together the two central concerns of this course: modernism, and the World War One. If human character changed, art did so also, and perhaps equally if not more radically. Through reading across genres, poetry, prose, and drama, we will come to an understanding of this tragic, enthralling, and complex period of human and literary history. This course therefore focuses on responses to and representations of the Great War.
Once completed this course, the student will achieve an academic understanding of the following subjects:
We will study the following texts in the order given. You should be familiar with them before the course starts. For the first and third texts, please obtain the specified edition. For the second and fourth, any edition will do.
1. Walter, George (ed.) The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.)
2. Malouf, David. Fly Away Peter.
3. Woolf, Virginia (ed. & intro. D Bradshaw) Mrs Dalloway. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009)
4. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Among the topics we will discuss, we find the following:
Methodology
This subject takes the form of a seminar, based on the exchange of opinion between instructor and students, and among students themselves. This requires a high level of preparation and participation on all sides. In addition, students will be required to prepare presentations, and write at least on in-class exam.
Apart from compulsory attendance, it is taken for granted that students have thoroughly read both the required primary and secondary material.
This is essentially a course on literary which, at the same time, requires a certain knowledge of the history of the period. Although class discussion will inevitably involve relevant historical information, students will have to read “around” the subject as well. Your instructor will inform you about this.
Additional reading and more detailed reading assignments will be posted on the Virtual Campus.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classroom activities –1(attendance, debate) | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 6, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Classroom activities –2 (oral presentation, in-class exam) | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 6, 7, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study, reading, and thinking | 75 | 3 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8 |
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Paper | 50% | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
Oral assessment | 25% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7 |
Other written exercises | 25% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 6, 8, 10 |
Basic secondary material on literature and war:
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. London: Oxford UP, 1977.
Gilbert, ‘Sandra M. Soldier’s Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and The Great War’ (Signs, Vol. 8: 3, Spring 1983) pp. 422-450.
McLoughlin. Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from The Iliad to Iraq. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
Claire Tylee, The Great War and Women’s Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women’s Writings: 1914-1964. Iowa City: Iowa UP, 1990.
Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Basic secondary material on modernism:
Goldman, Jane. Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
(ed.) Levenson, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
Sherry, Vincent B. The Great War and the Language of Modernism. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Tate, Trudi. Modernism, History and the First World War. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998.
Basic secondary material on World War One:
Howard, Michael. The First World War. New York: Oxford UP, 2002
Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century. Harmondsworth:Penguin, 2003.
Sheffield, Gary. Forgotten Victory: The First World War, Myth and Realities. London: Headline, 2001.
Stiener, Zara S. Britain and the Origins of the First World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003.