MA/PGDip Gender, Sexuality and Culture

Students who complete the module will be able:

• To discuss and explore issues of modernism and modernisms (in relation to the post-Second World War definitions of writing of the period 1900-1940);
• To engage productively with poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the period;
• To test hypotheses about literary movements and writing in regional, national and transnational contexts;
• ·To bring to bear relevant theoretical approaches and writing on modernism.

• Competence in the range of current debates in modernist literary studies;
• Have the ability to use, and relate the texts discussed to debates in, relevant theoretical and secondary texts on modernism and ‘marginal’ modernisms;
• Have an ability to construct and defend complex arguments through textual evidence (literary and / or theoretical), in written assessment and in seminar discussions;
• Be able to communicate effectively with peers in seminar and small group situations;
• Be able to demonstrate appropriate written skills for work contributing to the final classification of the MA.

• Ability to debate and consider the utility and definition of a major movement in literary history and debates on its meaning, utility and reconceptualization;
• Have an ability both to read closely with discrimination and to relate literary texts to wider cultural and theoretical issues;
• Have enhanced skills of comparison and analysis;
• Have the ability to compare different kinds of texts in seminar discussion and in written work.

• Show evidence of skills in close reading necessary to appreciate the complexities of the primary and secondary texts;
• Have skills in the use of all relevant library resources, databases and search engines, to locate material for discussion and assessment purposes;
• Have an ability to plan and carry out independent research projects shown in the assessed coursework essay;
• Have the ability to participate productively in the seminar discussions;
• The development of enhanced analytical skills and skills of written and verbal communication and argument.

• Ability to engage with, critique and write well about a complex and diverse area;
• Have the ability to participate productively in the seminar discussions;
• Have the ability and to work independently (as shown in the assessed essay);
• The development of enhanced analytical skills and skills of written and verbal communication and argument.

• Office hours to discuss developing essays plus individual tuitions in office hours and by appointment
• Group Essay discussion at the end of the course
• Summative feedback on essays

DiBattista, Maria and Lucy McDiarmid, eds., High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (1996)

Eysteinsson, Astradur, The Concept of Modernism (1992)

Mao, Douglas and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Bad Modernisms (2006)

Wallace, Jeff, Beginning Modernism (2011)

Scott, Bonnie Kime, The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990)

Stevens, Hugh and Caroline Howlett, Modernist Sexualities (2000)

Wollaeger, Mark and With Matt Eatough, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (2012)