University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 9

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm Thu

This module will survey a representative sample of modernist fiction and poetry, providing an opportunity for the in-depth study of key conceptual shifts and formal innovations in modernist literature. Thematically, it will take as its central focus the question of how the modernist desire to break with the past and ¿make it new¿ existed alongside an on-going interest in tradition and the past. We will consider topics such as Imagism and classicism; modernist uses of myth; the modernist pastoral; modernism and memory; exile and imagined return; and the anticipatory nostalgia of the 1930s. Authors considered will include W B Yeats, Ezra Pound, H D [Hilda Doolittle], T S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and W H Auden. (Group E)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN2003 and pass EN2004

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 x 1-hour lecture and 1 x 1-hour seminar, and 2 optional consultative hours.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%


Re-assessment: exam = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr C M Alt
Module teaching staff: Dr Christina Alt (CMA7)
Module coordinator email cma7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• Display a detailed knowledge and critical appreciation of poetic and prose texts of the early twentieth century
• Demonstrate an understanding of these texts within their historical and cultural contexts
• Demonstrate a knowledge of recent critical and theoretical approaches to these texts
• Demonstrate skills in the critical reading and evaluation of primary texts and relevant secondary material
• Demonstrate oral skills tested via group discussion
• Demonstrate written skills tested by means of essays and end-of-semester examinations