Course Description
Course Name
Modernism and Modernity
Session: VSRS3122
Hours & Credits
20 SCQF Credits
Prerequisites & Language Level
Four English modules on academic transcript.
Taught In English
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
This module explores key texts and contexts of the modernist period. The module centres on the detailed study
of literary texts, but also explores intellectual cross-currents and interactions between literature, philosophy,
film, and visual culture. It studies the relationship between modernism in the arts and the broader condition of
modernity, exploring such topics as time, technology, the metropolis, primitivism, sex and sexuality,
psychoanalysis and the dissociation of the self, and irrationality. Students will read literary texts alongside
manifestoes and other source documents and will be encouraged to consider the development of a modernist
aesthetic of shock, fragmentation, discontinuity and montage in both formal and cultural terms.
Writers considered include Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, Pound, Lawrence and Beckett.
*Course content subject to change