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Last updated: 4 March 2022
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
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ALL432
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 1-hour class (online), 1 x 2-hour seminar per week
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including???1 x 1-hour class (online) per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar or equivalent per week
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
This unit focuses on the emergence and development of literary modernisms, introducing students to a predominantly British-based modernist tradition as well as alternative cultural and regionally specific literary modernisms. The unit will consider literary modernisms in light of the text's relationship with the past; war; the everyday; and the demise of mimesis and the subsequent articulation of the autonomy of art. It also considers how literary modernisms reflect and critique their contexts of cultural production, and the role of the metropolis, mass culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. The unit also considers features of late modernism and of interrelated postmodernism such as self-reflexivity, irony, parody, metafiction, and intertextuality. Writers studied include T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Michael Cunningham.
Apply knowledge of literary history, literary language, and critical and creative approaches to a range of modern literature
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Utilize digital technologies to access research materials on literature as well as to draw on these technologies when constructing critical and/or creative research outputs
GLO2: Digital literacy
Undertake close reading of literary texts in terms of their formal properties and historical context
Apply critical methodologies in the thematic and formal analysis of literary texts
GLO4: Critical thinking
Investigate and analyse literature in order to understand how literary texts can represent new understandings of modernity, cultural histories and modes of being, and generate possible ways of articulating affects and subjectivities
GLO5: Problem solving
Demonstrate self management capacities in selection of relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary contexts in which to understand and create informed interpretations and responses to set texts on modernism, postmodernism, and modernity and be responsible and accountable for continued learning
GLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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