The Modernist Short Story
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4415 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4415
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod explores the formal and thematic features of the modernist short story, identifying important nineteenth-century influences (e.g. Thomas Hardy, Anton Chekhov, French naturalist writings) and showing how key practitioners (Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce) innovated with interiorised narration, the presentation of character, form and chronology, and symbolism. The opening unit will guide students to an understanding of the literary and social/historical contexts to modernist short fiction, while subsequent units will focus on individual authors, modelling contextual, thematic and formal readings of carefully selected short stories. Students will gain an understanding of the modernist short story form and acquire the skills necessary to construct their own contextual, thematic and formal responses to individual texts.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student Participation
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, English Literature, and Modern and Contemporary Literature. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate knowledge of the literary and social/historical contexts to the modernist short story, and its characteristic qualities and techniques.
Demonstrate an understanding of different interpretive approaches to the modernist short story.
Offer a thematic, formal or contextual analysis of (or creative engagement with) the modernist short story.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).
Conveners
- Dr Andrew Steven Harrison