106-002 Modern Literature

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This subject focuses upon representative examples of early twentieth-century fiction, poetry and drama, reconsidered in the light of contemporary criticism and theories of reading. Students will be introduced to some of the thematic and formal innovations and some of the controversies and contexts of early twentieth-century literature. The set texts will be read using recent innovations in literary criticism and critical theory, so that students who successfully complete this subject will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

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Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

• B Brecht, Mother Courage. Routledge.
• B Adams & T Tate (eds), That Kind of Woman. Virago.
• T S Eliot, Selected Poems. Faber.
• P Jones, Imagist Poetry. Penguin.
• J Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. Penguin.
• D H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Penguin.
• L Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Heinemann.
• V Woolf, Orlando. World's Classics.
• W B Yeats, Selected Poems. Macmillan.