Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- current key debates in twentieth-century studies;
- how to research and develop an appropriate interdisciplinary topic in the period using archival sources.
- the complex formal, stylistic, generic and aesthetic dimensions of twentieth-century texts and their relationship to debates surrounding the value and uses of literature;
- how critical, cultural, and scholarly material contributes to the ways we think about and respond to literature and culture in the long twentieth century;
- key questions raised by critical concepts including: gender, race, class, science, imperialism and decolonization, capitalism, money/ finance, and globalization, environmental crisis, energy, affect, material culture and print culture across literary and historical disciplines;
- what is common and what is specific to the approach of different disciplines to the study of literature and culture in the long twentieth century;
- specific issues raised by topics including: revolution, innovation, ekphrasis, medicine, interdisciplinarity
- genres and movements such as modernism, avant-garde aesthetics, poetics, experimental drama,
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- identify lines of enquiry about cultural change common to historical and literary disciplines;
- apply appropriate critical and historical approaches to diverse cultural forms;
- describe and evaluate the state of research and scholarship on culture in cross-disciplinary perspective;
- identify and develop a topic for further research which might form the basis of an MA dissertation.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify and outline the main debates in a given field;
- communicate a coherent and convincing argument at length in written form;
- demonstrate the capacity for self-directed problem-solving and independent work within a strict time-frame.
- develop ideas in concert with others in the context of discussion and debate;
- draw upon a range of relevant primary and secondary sources to explore specific historical and literary questions;
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- identify and analyse the shifting historical frameworks through which culture is understood across the period;
- conceptualize historical and cultural issues in new ways as a result of interdisciplinary work.
- Synthesize and integrate the analysis of primary sources and secondary texts in a coherent written argument;
- critically evaluate both primary source materials and arguments in secondary texts;
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 20 |
Follow-up work | 80 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Warwick Research Collective (2015). Combined and Uneven Development. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Brian Massumi (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: N.C.: Duke UP.
Giovanni Arrighi (1994). The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. London: Verso.
Sianne Ngai (2005). Ugly Feelings. Cambridge: Mass.: Harvard UP.
Pheng Cheah (2016). What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Durham: N.C.: Duke UP.
Susan Stanford Friedman (2016). Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time. New York: NY: Columbia UP.
Rob Nixon (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Mass.: Harvard UP.
Sara Ahmed (2002). Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Postcoloniality. London: Routledge.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
There will be no non-contributory assessments in this module, but classroom activities and individual discussions, should help you to judge how you are progressing in the module.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 70% |
Written assignment | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External