Module: Modernism

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Modernism
Module Code	EL307 (ITS) / LIT1036 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	English
Module Co-ordinator	Paula Murphy
Module Teachers	Gearoid O'Flaherty, Kit Fryatt
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

This module will equip students with a knowledge of the development of literary modernism in the context of the broader philosophical and artistic modernist movement. A selection of modernist prose, poetry, drama and film will be analysed in detail to uncover common concerns and strategies.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the socio-historical and artistic factors that created the environment for modernism to emerge
2. Become familiar with the artistic philosophies of modernist writers
3. Identify the literary strategies that characterise modernist writing
4. Describe the relationship between modernist writers and their national, social and cultural contexts
5. Have an awareness of how the end of modernism becomes the beginning of postmodernism

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Assignment Completion	12	No Description
Assessment Feedback	1	No Description
Independent Study	88	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Modernist Film
e.g. Fritz Lang, Charlie Chaplin

Modernist poetry
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (1914), T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922), Harlem Renaissance poetry

Modernist Fiction
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899), Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928), James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Short assessment task	10%	n/a
Essay	n/a	20%	n/a
Assignment	End of semester assignment comprised of two essay questions.	70%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Gabrielle Macintyre: 0, Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf,
Robert McParland: 0, Film and Literary Modernism,
David Ayres: 0, Modernism: A Short Introduction,
Joe Cleary: 0, The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism,
Pericles Lewis: 0, The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism,
Laura A. Wienkiel: 0, Modernism, Race and Manifestos,
Paul Brantlinger: 0, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914,
Colleen Lamos: 0, Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust,
Paul Sheehan: 0, Modernism, Narrative and Humanism,
Len Platt: 0, Modernism and Race,

Other Resources

None