Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 0 |
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 World War One. If human character changed, art did so also, and perhaps equally if not more radically. Through reading across genres, particularly prose and poetry, 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 and on the ways in which literature attempted to bear witness to the trauma of the war experience. We will focus on the interaction of different writings, and on how literature borrowed ideas that circulated in politics, psychoanalysis and propaganda.
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 can highlight the following:
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
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 |
PLEASE, NOTE:
REASSESSMENT:
VERY IMPORTANT: Plagiary is copying one or more sentences from unidentified sources, presenting it as original work (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL). Plagiarism is a serious offense. Students must learn to respect the intellectualproperty of others, identifying any source they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
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.
Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina. Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War. That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. The Netherlands: Brill, 2016.
Pividori, Cristina. "Eros and Thanatos Revisited: the Poetics of Trauma in Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier" Atlantis. 32.2 (2010): 89-104.
---. "Of Heroes, Ghosts, and Witnesses: the Construction of Masculine Identity in the War Poets' Narratives." Journal of War & Culture Studies. 7.2 (2014): 162-178.
---. "Impressions from the Front: the Crisis of the Witness in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End." in David Owen and Cristina Pividori (eds) Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War. That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. The Netherlands: Brill: 106-120.
Saunders, Nicholas. Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
Tylee, Claire. 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:
Booth, Allyson. Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Cole, Sarah. Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Goldman, Jane. Modernism, 1910-1945: Image toApocalypse. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
Hawkes, Rob. Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
(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:
Anievas, Alexander. Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016.
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.
International Society for First World War Studies: https://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/
Imperial War Museum: https://www.iwm.org.uk/
Re-writing War (A research project run by the Department of English & German Studies, UAB): https://blogs.uab.cat/rewritingwar/the-project/