Module Identifier | EN20820 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Natasha Alden | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Dr William G Slocombe, Mr Michael J Smith, Katharine E Wright, Dr Luke A Thurston, Professor Peter T Barry, Dr Tiffany S Atkinson | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 x 1 hour | |||||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1 hour | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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SECTION A
2-3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899-1900)
4-5. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
6-7. T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems (1917-1927)
8-9. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1927)
SECTION B
10-11. W.H. Auden, Selected Poems (1930s-1950s)
12-13. John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1956)
14-15. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
16-17. Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)
18-19 Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist (1985)
20. Concluding Lecture
Problem solving | In essays and examination answers: by formulating and putting into practice a critical approach appropriate to text and topic set | ||
Research skills | In preparation for seminars, essays, and exams: by investigation of literary texts, associated critical and scholarly writing, and the relationship of literary texts to historical an cultural contexts | ||
Communication | (Written) in essays and examination answers students are encouraged to express their ideas articulately and fluently (Oral) seminars are based on group discussion and brief student presentations | ||
Improving own Learning and Performance | Students are encouraged to take more personal initiative in the planning and conduct of their preparation for assignments than at Level 1, and to make use of a broader range of resources; formal feedback on essays and informal feedback on seminar participation helps students measure their improvement | ||
Team work | Informal group work in seminars | ||
Information Technology | Substantial use is made of electronic text-databases (EEBO, LION), of electronic journals, and of Blackboard, and students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with these | ||
Personal Development and Career planning | Only insofar as the module covers key areas of literature in which students intending to teach English would need to demonstrate competence; or which might be related to future academic research | ||
Subject Specific Skills | Close reading of literary texts; grasp of generic and intertextual relationships between texts; identification and analysis of appropriate historical and cultural contexts |
This module is at CQFW Level 5