106-234 Modernist Fiction

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Available as 106-334 at 3rd-year level.

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Subject Description

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. 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; and an understanding of 'modernism' as a stylistic and period concept applied to fiction.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

• D Barnes, Nightwood. Faber.
• J Conrad, Victory. Penguin.
• E M Forster, A Passage to India. Penguin.
• H James, The Turn of the Screw. Norton.
• J Joyce, Ulysses. Oxford.
• D H Lawrence, Women in Love. Penguin.
• W Lewis, Tarr. Black Sparrow.
• D M Richardson, Pointed Roofs. Virago.
• G Stein, Tender Buttons. Sun & Moon Press.
• V Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Penguin.