20th-Century Literature: Human to Posthuman

• • 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:

• MAQ-ENGX1001-Literature: Medieval to Modern
• MAQ-ENGX1002-Literature: Modern and Contemporary

Others

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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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