EN5504
Reading the Modern
2024-2025
30
15
SCQF level 11
1
Academic year(s): 2024-2025
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 1
Planned timetable:
Responding to what Pericles Lewis has termed the 'crisis of representation' in the opening decades of the twentieth century, this module explores attempts by writers to find new literary subjects and forms. In tandem with module EN5503, which considers the impact of political, social, scientific, technological and cultural revolution on literary traditions and techniques, this module explores the pursuit of a number of influential British, American and French modernists to develop modes of representation compatible with a newly urban, industrialised, mass-oriented age.
Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar (x 9 weeks)
Scheduled learning hours: 18
Guided independent study hours: 280
As used by St Andrews: 100% coursework
Re-assessment: 100% coursework
Module coordinator: Professor E S Sutton
Module teaching staff: Team taught
Module coordinator email ess2@st-andrews.ac.uk