Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
Course Number:
ENG00023C
Course Description:
This module is a core foundational module for all First Year English Literature students, including combined-course students. It will help all students to engage with new “approaches” to literary studies as they encounter a range of texts and topics. It specifically addresses the relationship between modernity, ‘the modern’, and literary culture, working out from the early eighteenth century and across the nineteenth century before arriving at the twentieth. The module will examine a range of genres and forms, and will also introduce critical terms, concepts and theories that have been used to grapple with modernity and modern literature. The module is organised into four key topics, with titles such as “Modern Subjects”, “Science and Politics”, “Faith and Form”, “Modernism and the City”. The module will help prepare students for the Spring Term module ‘Approaches to Literature II’ and also for ‘World Literature II’. It will also help to lay the
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00023C/latest
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