Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description This module will both describe and explore the intellectual history of Modernism and Postmodernism, and also differentiate between those concepts and what is described as modern and postmodern style. The sessions will focus on the political contexts in which modernism and postmodernism become active, and also engage with the aesthetic implications of the terms. There will also be a particular focus on the difference between a modern and postmodern reader, with a due sense of the social context in which all readings occur. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Discuss the problematic conceptual history of Modernism and Postmodernism 2. Know the various social and cultural contexts in which Modernism and Postmodernism emerged 3. Understand the various generic and formal manifestations of modernism and postmodernism in poetry, fiction and dramatic arts 4. Assess the ongoing status of terms such as modern and postmodern 5. Appreciate the relationship of modernism and postmodernism to radical change in society, both national and transnational 6. Interrogate radical and challenging texts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Modernist Poetics W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot Modernist Politics Yeats and the Nation State Modernist Film Leni Riefenstahl Triumph of the Will, Hitchcock Modernist Fiction Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Krazy Kat Postmodern Fictions Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, Toni Morrison, Don de Lillo, Philip Roth, John Kennedy Toole, Eimear Mac Bride Postmodern Poetics Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, The Beatles, Hip-Hop, Medbh McGuckian, Performance Poetry Postmodern Cinema New Forms Video Games, Hypertext, The Graphic Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Resources None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||