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2020 – 2021 English Literature Fourth Year Core Period Courses 2020 – 2021 ENGLISH LITERATURE FOURTH YEAR CORE PERIOD COURSES (These courses are elective and each is worth 20 credits) (Note: Only Single Honours English Literature or Scottish Literature or Joint English and Scottish Literature students are eligible to take these courses) 18 June 2020 1 A note on Hybrid Learning What will hybrid teaching for English and Scottish literature ‘core period’ and ‘option’ courses look like? In line with the University of Edinburgh’s guidance, your courses next year will be delivered in ‘hybrid’ modes: they will combine a blend of on campus teaching and online tuition. Our teaching staff are currently working to redesign all of the courses we deliver to make the most of the opportunities this offers, and to ensure that we can continue to deliver the same experience to students who are on campus, and those who are unable to attend for any period of time. We will ensure we have backup plans should things change at short notice, to ensure continuity. What will this look like? We expect to be able to offer every student a combination of face-to-face teaching (in most cases, one 50 minute session weekly) and structured online activities which will provide opportunities to interact with other students and with your course tutor and which mirror activities that might in other circumstances have taken place in physical teaching spaces. Courses will be structured around weekly patterns of activity, with face-to-face teaching taking place on campus where possible, and in virtual spaces whenever it is not possible to hold a physical class meeting. You will work together in seminar groups of between 10 and 15 students, with the direction and support of your course tutor, and in smaller autonomous learning groups of 3-5 students. You will complete structured learning activities to support your independent reading and study, and work together with other students in your autonomous learning groups and in your seminar groups. In some courses where there are multiple seminar groups, some activities may be conducted at course level. Your tutors will aim to integrate all members of a seminar group into all activities wherever possible, even if you are not able to attend campus in person. No assessments will be based around activities conducted in face-to-face teaching, on campus or online, as we know that some students may face difficulties in joining face-to-face activities in one or both formats, at some times. We will ensure that all recommended secondary readings are accessible via electronic means, and we will adapt our assessment formats to ensure that our expectations of you are realistic. At the time we confirm your course choices we will make more detailed information available about how your courses will be assessed, timetabled and organised. We hope these courses offer you an exciting set of opportunities to explore different kinds of literature from a wide range of perspectives. These courses may be subject to further modification especially as we adapt to hybrid teaching, but the descriptions you will find here give you all the information you will need to make an informed choice. We hope that you enjoy reading this material. 2 FOURTH YEAR CORE PERIOD COURSES: SEMESTER ONE 4 Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity 4 Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose 7 Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940* 8 The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation* 10 Victorian Transatlanticism 12 FOURTH YEAR CORE PERIOD COURSES: SEMESTER TWO 13 Contemporary Scottish Fiction* 13 Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature and Film* 16 Postcolonial Writing 18 Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing* 21 The Modern American Novel, 1920-1960 22 * Courses marked with an asterisk have a Scottish component 3 FOURTH YEAR CORE PERIOD COURSES: SEMESTER ONE English Literature Fourth Year Semester One Core Period Course Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity Course Description Modernism is a term under which a bewildering variety of aesthetic practices and ideas have been gathered, and with which some of the most dense and complex works of modern English literature have come to be associated. This course aims to overcome the reticence which this reputation can sometimes engender in students by presenting them with a range of twentieth-century texts from a variety of national contexts and, by demonstrating how to interpret them and understand them in context, give students a sense of the value and the pleasure of grappling with “difficult” modernist literature. A central focus of the course will be the relationship between modernity and modernism: the social and cultural phenomena that constitute twentieth-century life across a range of global contexts, and the aesthetic response to these unevenly distributed phenomena. Students will consider the ways that writers engage with, and react against, the status quo, in terms of both literary traditions and the social and political upheavals that manifested themselves in the early part of the century through processes such as industrialisation, migration and urbanisation. Other themes that emerge across the set texts include shifting gender norms, attentiveness to the figure of the artist and the creative process, the nature of consciousness, technological advances, race, migration, and the limitations of language. The course focuses on novels and poetry but also incorporates little magazines, memoir and non-fiction, a range which offers the opportunity to explore how these authors challenged and reworked genres. Students will attend closely to language and narrative voice, and the array of interrelated ways in which writers of this period broke apart and reassembled literary, poetic, stylistic and formal conventions. We will explore the significance of some of the different print culture forms used by these authors, and students will be introduced to recent debates within modernist studies that have come from postcolonial studies, critical race studies, minority literatures, gender studies and queer studies. Scholars in these fields have posed challenges to conventional understandings of modernism, and we will explore how these critical perspectives have forced a reappraisal of the field’s temporal boundaries and aesthetic categories, and what they can reveal about how, and why, modernism has come to be valued in the way it has. 4 Primary Texts Anand, Mulk Raj. Conversations in Bloomsbury. Vision Books, 2011. Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. Faber & Faber, 2007. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008. McKay, Claude. Romance in Marseille. Penguin, 2019. Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. Penguin, 2000. White, Patrick. The Twyborn Affair. Vintage, 1995. Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Oxford World’s Classics, 2001. Recommended Secondary Reading (all available as electronic resources through the University Library) Doyle, Laura. “Geomodernism, Postcoloniality, and Women’s Writing.” The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers, ed. Maren Linett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 129-145. Friedman, Susan Stanford. “Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/ Modernity/ Modernism.” Modernism/modernity 8.3 (2001): 493–513. ---. “Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies.” Modernism/modernity 13.3 (2006): 425-443. Gikandi, Simon. “Preface: Modernism in the World.” Modernism/modernity 13.3 (2006): 419-424. Mao, Douglas, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. Bad Modernisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. *See introduction especially* Massey, Doreen. For Space. London: Sage, 2005. * See especially “Spatialising the History of Modernity”, pp.62-75.* Platt, Len, ed. Modernism and Race. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Puchner, Martin. “The Rear Guard of British Modernism.” Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 107-131. Shiach, Morag, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Snaith, Anna. Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945. 5 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Southworth, Helen, ed. Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012. Wollaeger, Mark and Matt Eatough, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 6 English Literature Fourth Year Semester One Core Period Course Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose Modern ideas of ‘Victorian values’ depend on clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry and prose. Prudes, perverts, and perfect families will be encountered, but so too will bigamists, emancipated women, loving and unloving patrons, unhappy families, passionate friendships, failed marriages, and families of choice. The construction and subversion of gender norms, and the impact of factors such as class, education, locale, and religion on the way love is understood as normative or perverse, will be major themes of the course. Some supplementary readings for the course will be provided
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