LT202-5-FY-CO:
Versions of Modernity
2017/18
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 05 October 2017
Friday 29 June 2018
30
01 August 2002
Requisites for this module
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BA QT37 English and United States Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA T720 English and United States Literature,
BA T723 English and United States Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA T728 English and United States Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QQ23 English Language and Literature,
BA QQ24 English Language and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QQ32 English Language and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QQ35 English Language and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q300 English Literature,
BA Q303 English Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q320 English Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q321 English Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA PQ32 Film Studies and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA PQ38 Film Studies and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QW26 Film Studies and Literature,
BA QW27 Film Studies and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q210 English and Comparative Literature,
BA Q211 English and Comparative Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA Q212 English and Comparative Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q218 English and Comparative Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA P530 Journalism and Literature,
BA P531 Journalism and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA P532 Journalism and Literature (Including Year Abroad)
What is modernity? How did it change our perception of the world? What impact did it make on literary culture? This module will enable you to map the literary landscape from the 1790s to the twenty-first century by examining literature's engagement with the challenges and inventions of modern life. You will study major works of poetry, drama
and fiction from the English and European traditions, focusing in particular on these works' negotiations of moments of transition between the old and the emerging new. Helping you to identify key historical junctures crucial to literary experiment and stylistic development, the module lays the groundwork for specialized study in the third year of your degree. At the end of the module you will be familiar with the contexts and literary innovations associated with diverse versions of modernity: Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Fin de Siècle fiction, High Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Postmodernism.
Aims, Objectives and Outcomes
* To advance an understanding of English and European literature from the 1790s to the twenty-first century.
* To explore key monuments and styles in literary formal experiment.
* To ensure skills in textual and contextual analysis
* To make connections between relevant periods and materials
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Compulsory for:
BA English Literature students
Versions of Modernity is taught through a weekly 1-hour lecture, a weekly 1-hour seminar and private study time.
Students should set aside at least 8 hours each week for preparing the requisite reading. You are expected to prepare for seminars by reading the set texts and conducting your own secondary/critical reading. Please go to seminars with ideas prepared for pen discussion. You contributions will be welcome and we will not dismiss any serious-minded contributions. Seminars are discussion-based forums for learning. You will not achieve a satisfactory participation mark if you do not prepare for seminars.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (2,000 words) |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 (2,500 - 3,000 words) |
|
60% |
| Practical |
Class Participation Mark |
|
10% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
Additional coursework information
Essay 1 will have 2000 words; Essay 2 will have 2500-3000 words
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Susan Oliver, email: soliver@essex.ac.uk.
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LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Prof Duncan James Salkeld
University of Chichester
Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
Available via Moodle
Of 88 hours, 88 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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