MODERNISM AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL
| Title | ΜΟΝΤΕΡΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΟ ΜΥΘΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ / MODERNISM AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL |
| Code | Λογ6-436 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600006634 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2020 – 2021 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600179688
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Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600179688
- At the Website of the School: http://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=98
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=6073
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students are expected to have read and thought about
•the epistemological question at the heart of Modernism (how texts represent the world)
•the ideological significance of its textual experimentations, especially modernist fiction’s relationship with the early twentieth-century discourses of imperialism, gender and race
•the limits of the modernist canon and the changing character of modernism’s own literary identity
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This module introduces students to the narrative strategies with the help of which modernist novels undermine the ideas of writing and reading as established by classic Realism. Focusing on novels by Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, the module raises questions, in particular, about the politics of modernist experimentation. To that end, it engages with critiques and defenses of modernism’s ideological positions by reading closely theoretical texts by Woolf, Georg Lukacs and Bertolt Brecht.
Keywords
modernism, modernity, textual experimentation, aesthetics, imperialism, women's writing
Educational Material Types
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
I use power point presentations and audiovisual material in teaching. I also use the E-Lerarning platform to set up interactive exercises in a virtual environment for the students; to provide students with essential reading and visual material; to provide students with links to sites and online networks related to the concerns and aims of this module; to make student presentations available to the whole class; to check the students' written work for plagiarism; to communicate with students.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 117 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 5 | ✓ | |||
| Exams | 13 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Evaluation is: 1. by presentation, home-essay and final exam (optional; 50% + 50%); 2. presentation and contribution to class discussions (30%) and final exam (70%; optional) or 3. by final exam only (100%).
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Modernism/Modernity
- Armstrong, Tim. Modernism: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005. (PS228.M63A76)
- Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991. (see especially chapters 1, 2 and 6) (PN56.M54M6)
- Brooker, Peter, ed. Modernism/Postmodernism. London and New York: Longman, 1992. (PN771.M6175)
- Butler, Christopher. Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. (focus on the relationship between modernist literature and art) (NX542.B88)
- DeKoven, Marianne. “The Politics of Modernist Form”. New Literary History 23.3 (summer 1992): 675-90. (a must) (*)
- Hayman, David. Re-forming the Narrative: Towards a Mechanics of Modernist Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1987. (PN3383.N35H38)
- Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou, eds. Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 1998. (an excellent reader, which makes available excerpts from seminal texts on the emergence of modernism, its aesthetics, its formulations and its manifestos)
- Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. New York: Cambridge U P, 1999. (see especially Michael Bell’s “The Metaphysics of Modernism”: accessible and useful / David Trotter’s “The Modernist Novel”: a useful and brief account of modernist novel writing) (PN56.M54C36)
- Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995. (PN56.M54N53)
- Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997. (PR888.M63S74)
Last Update
06-12-2021
