Module: Modernism

Module Specifications..

Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024

Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Modernism
Module Code	EL307
School	67
Module Co-ordinator	Semester 1: Paula Murphy Semester 2: Paula Murphy Autumn: Paula Murphy
Module Teachers	Paula Murphy Gearoid O'Flaherty Kit Fryatt
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

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; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
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

Programme or List of Programmes

BRE	Bachelor of Religious Education &English

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