LIT301: Selected Texts in Twentieth-Century Literature
Key details
Accredited towards | Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts |
Unit type | Elective unit |
Credit points | 6 |
Indicative contact hours | 3 hours per week |
Prerequisites | None |
Offered in | Semester 1 |
Tuition fee | Learn more |
Overview
The unit presents a study of major twentieth-century literary works, from various national backgrounds. Classes will focus on these works’ imaginative engagement with the apparent absence of meaning in the modern age and the various ways in which authors endeavour to construct meaning. Writers studied may include William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath and W. B. Yeats.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this unit of study, students will be able to:
- Compare and contrast major works of literature emanating from the 20th Century and beyond
- Provide critical analysis by identifying and describing, where appropriate, the inter-relationship between chosen texts and their social, historical and political milieux
- Identify common themes of fractured meaning – such as trauma, modernity, crisis of identity, the city, capitalism, the loss of a Christian moral framework – that characterise these works and appraise their representation in chosen texts
- Examine the relationship between a work’s literary form and its meaning
- Work constructively in groups and actively participate in class discussion
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