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 106-031 Modernist Fiction

Note

Formerly available as 106-234/334. Students who have completed 106-234/334 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

To be advised

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English, see Prerequisites.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

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 recent developments in criticism and theory. 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 totalling 4000 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 M Richardson, Pointed Roofs. Virago.
  • V Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Penguin.
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