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1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-240 | Prev:106-232
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: To be advised.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have acquired:
- a first-hand acquaintance with some famous examples of modernist fiction;
- an understanding of the controversies provoked by the original publication of these books and recent reconsiderations of them;
- an understanding of 'modernism' as a stylistic and period concept applied to fiction.
Content:
This subject investigates shifting conceptions of 'modernism' in fiction written in English from the turn of the century until the 1930s, with particular attention to the ways in which the new-critical canon of modernist texts has been destabilised by feminist and postcolonial critiques.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-240 | Prev:106-232
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p102) : Next:106-240 | Prev:106-232
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: To be advised.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have acquired:
- a first-hand acquaintance with some famous examples of modernist fiction;
- an understanding of the controversies provoked by the original publication of these books and recent reconsiderations of them;
- an understanding of "modernism" as a stylistic and period concept applied to fiction.
Content:
This subject investigates shifting conceptions of "modernism" in fiction written in English from the turn of the century until the 1930s, with particular attention to the ways in which the new-critical canon of modernist texts has been destabilised by feminist and postcolonial critiques.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p102) : Next:106-240 | Prev:106-232
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