English Literature: Modernities - Literature, Culture, Theory

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

Full-time Students:

Semester 1 - September to December RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE MODERNITIES I:1880-1945 One optional course

Semester 2 - January to March MODERNITIES 2: 1945 TO THE PRESENT Two optional courses

Summer - April to September MODERNITIES DISSERTATION

Part-time Students:

First Year Research Training Course Both compulsory Modernities courses One optional course

Second Year Two optional courses Dissertation

OPTIONAL COURSES

Optional courses will usually be taken from among the 20 credit courses listed under the general pathway. Not all options will be available in any given year, depending on staff availability. A number of optional courses have been devised with the needs of the Modernities programme particularly in mind including, but not limited to:

AFRICAN MODERNITIES: COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN THE NOVEL THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE, 1945-75 THE BLEEDING EDGE: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS AND MEDICINE CANADIAN LITERATURE (PGT) CONTEMPORARY REALISMS FANTASIES OF ENERGY (PGT) MODERN EVERYDAY THE MIND OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL PROUST IN THEORY VIRGINIA WOOLF WRITES MODERNITY

With the convenor’s permission, you may also take option courses from elsewhere in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and beyond.

DELIVERY

All taught courses are 20 credits and are delivered in weekly 2 hour seminars or similar. Students are taught in seminars and proceed through a planned sequence of reading and discussion. The working style however is exploratory rather than didactic; students are expected to engage fully with primary sources, to develop, express and take responsibility for their own opinions and to work towards independent argument and expression in their resulting coursework and dissertation.