Undergraduate MAQ-ENGX3010-2023
20th-Century Literature: Human to Posthuman
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Duration
18 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
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Prior study
Required
Start dates
- 24 Jul 2023
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Subject details
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical and analytical reading strategies, interpretive analysis, scholarly research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of modernist and postmodernist studies in English
- Identify, evaluate and apply principles of modernism and postmodernism to different literary modes, narrative and non-narrative
- Display creative thinking and construct cohesive arguments
- Consider how historical and theoretical propositions of modernism have shaped the reception and reproduction of 20th-century art more broadly
- Engage in informed critical discussion on unit content with peers and teachers, consider and assess others’ points of view, and to argue a critical position
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- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one ofOthers
Pre-requisite: 130cp at 1000 level or above
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
This unit looks at a range of texts across the 20th century, from modernism to postmodernism and late modernism. The governing theme for the unit is what it means to be human, raising questions about memory, identity, agency, empathy, care and ethical responsibility. Topics to be discussed within these lines of enquiry include the death of God, the crisis of history, war and its aftermath, and changing gender dynamics. The range of Australian and international authors to be studied includes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O’Connor, Gerald Murnane, J. M. Coetzee and Sarah Kane.
- Textual analysis task (20%)
- Participatory task (20%)
- Online quizzes (20%)
- Research Essay (40%)
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