Course learning outcomes and assessment criteria
This course considers a range of textual forms typical of the modern and contemporary period, being concerned with poetry, fiction and drama in the twentieth/twenty-first centuries. The course will develop your understanding of change and continuity in the literary culture of the period, provide a context for the application of a wide range of critical approaches to the literature of the period, and enable you to handle with confidence a range of terms used in contemporary readings of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature (terms such as ‘modern’, ‘postmodern’, ‘postcolonial’ and so on).
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course you should:
- • have detailed knowledge of key moments in the development of literature in the twentieth/twenty-first centuries
- • show critical understanding of how the literature of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries is connected to the historical, social and cultural contexts in which it was/is written
- • have an enhanced ability to use and develop appropriate critical concepts
- • have an enhanced ability to critically engage with specific texts.
Mode of assessment
One three-hour unseen examination.
Assessment criteria
You will be assessed according to your ability to:
- • demonstrate a detailed knowledge of key moments in the development of literature in the twentieth/twenty-first centuries
- • engage critically with the literature of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries and the historical, social and cultural contexts in which it was/is written
- • marshal and articulate your understanding of the critical concepts covered by the course.