Comparative Literature MA, Modernity and Modernism, 7,5 ECTS-credits

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Litteraturvetenskap AV, Modernitet och modernism, 7,5 hp
Comparative Literature MA, Modernity and Modernism, 7,5 ECTS-credits

General data

  • Code: LI004A
  • Subject/Main field: Comparative Literature
  • Cycle: Second cycle
  • Credits: 7,5
  • Progressive specialization: - - -
  • Education area: Humaniora 100%
  • Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
  • Answerable department: Department of Humanities
  • Approved: 2007-04-16
  • Date of change: 2008-06-16
  • Version valid from: 2008-08-26

Selection rules and procedures

The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.

Grading system

Seven-grade scale, A, B, C, D, E, Fx and F. Fx and F represent fail levels.

Course reading

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Required literature

  • Author: Perloff, Majorie
  • Title: The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
  • Edition: 2003
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Author: Lulthersson, Peter
  • Title: Svensk litterär modernism: en stridsstudie
  • Ort: Stockholm
  • Edition: 2002
  • Author: Felski, Rita
  • Title: The Gender of Modernity
  • Ort: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Edition: 1995
  • Author: Calinescu, Matei
  • Title: Five faces of modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
  • Ort: Durham
  • Edition: 1987
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Press
  • Comment: Svensk översättning: Modernitetens fem ansikten: Modernism, avant-garde, dekadens, kitsch, postmodernism. Ludvika 2000.
  • Author: Bourdieu, Pierre
  • Title: Konstens regler. Det litterära fältets uppkomst och struktur
  • Ort: Stockholm/Stehag
  • Edition: 2000
  • Comment: s. 1-260.
  • Author: Berman, Marshall
  • Title: Allt som är fast förflyktigas. Modernism och modernitet
  • Ort: Lund
  • Edition: 1987
  • Author: Benjamin, Walter
  • Title: "Författaren som producent", finns bl a i Essayer om Brecht (1971), s 89-108, samt "Konstverket i reproduktionsåldern", "Paris, 1800-talets huvudstad" och "Om några motiv hos Baudelaire", alla tre finns bl a i Bild och dialektik (1991), s. 60-96, 97-112, 113-157.

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