To examine a range of key critical and theoretical writings regarding the modern tradition from roughly 1900 to the present; and to relate them to more contemporary literary, critical and theoretical ideas, as well as to major works from the modern era.
Module learning outcomes
Subject content
·Knowledge of a historical and intellectual range of critical and theoretical concepts, and understanding of the literary, critical, theoretical and cultural contexts with which these concepts engage
Academic and graduate skills
Critical abilities in relation to the form and rhetoric of critical, theoretical, and primary texts; ability to contextualise such texts in literary, theoretical and cultural terms
Assessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework 4,500 word essay
N/A
100
Special assessment rules
None
Reassessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework 4,500 word essay
N/A
100
Module feedback
You are provided with feedback within the 6-week University deadline.
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Indicative reading
Texts by Baudelaire, Dickens, Foucault, Freud, Benjamin, Henry James, Adorno, Huxley, and Beckett, as well as Raymond Williams, Lynda Nead, D. A Miller, Andreas Huyssen, Rita Felski