Literature and Modernity

Code

ENGL4295

School

English

Level

4

Credits

20

Semesters

Autumn Malaysia

Summary

Literature and Modernity

Target Students

Students in the MA English Studies (UNMC). Also open to students studying the MA English and Creative Writing (UNMC).

Classes

• One 2-hour seminar each week for 12 weeks

Assessment

• 100% Coursework 1: 4000 words essay

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding of:

• a range of literary representations of modernity
• the historical development and re-conceptualization of ‘the modern’/modernity
• relevant concepts and critical positions in relation to literary innovation

  Intellectual skills:

• the ability to think independently while giving due weight to the arguments of others
• the ability to relate texts to their appropriate historical and literary-historical contexts
• the ability to discuss and apply relevant critical or theoretical concepts and terms
• the ability to identify patterns of influence and recurrent themes in a comparative context

  Professional practical skills:
  the ability to communicate effectively in writing

• the ability to present a logical and sustained argument
• the ability to conduct research, evaluating and employing secondary sources in a scholarly manner

  Transferrable skills:

• the ability to communicate research effectively in written and oral presentations.
• the ability to conduct self-directed study and research.
• the ability to write clearly and comprehensively.
• the ability to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively and to develop sustainable judgements in dialogue with relevant secondary-critical and historical sources

Conveners

• Leonard Rajan Jeyam