Course Details

Country: United Kingdom
Institution: University of York
Course Title: The Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British & Irish Literature
Course Number: ENG00104I
Course Description: This module celebrates an era of extraordinary creativity in these islands, which paradoxically occurs during one of the most troubled centuries in history. We will examine a diverse range of literature in multiple genres, produced from the First World War to the dawn of the new millennium. You will have the opportunity to read in depth some of the most enjoyable, influential, and revolutionary texts of recent times. You will explore artistic responses to an era in which ‘human character changed’, as Virginia Woolf famously put it.
Language: English
Approved Equivalent: ENGH 202
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