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2025 unit information
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
From 2026
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Nil
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
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.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Apply knowledge of literary history, literary language, and critical and creative approaches to a range of modern literature
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Undertake close reading of literary texts in terms of their formal properties and historical context, and apply relevant critical and literacy theory
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 subjectives
GLO5: Problem solving
Select relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary contexts and articulate the rationale for these choices
GLO6: Self-management
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
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.
The texts and reading list for ALL202 can be found via the University Library.Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only
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