Comparative Literature MA, Modernity and Modernism, 7,5 HE Credits
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Litteraturvetenskap AV, Modernitet och modernism, 7,5 hp
Comparative Literature MA, Modernity and Modernism, 7,5 HE Credits
General data
- Code: LI004A
- Subject/Main field: Comparative Literature
- Cycle: Second cycle
- Credits: 7,5
- Progressive specialization: A1N - Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- Education area: Humaniora 100%
- Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
- Answerable department: Department of Humanities
- Approved: 2007-04-16
- Date of change: 2010-01-15
- Version valid from: 2010-08-26
Aim
The purpose of the course is to deepen the student's understanding of the field of modernity and modernism.
Course objectives
When finishing the course, the student is required to demonstrate
- a deeper understanding of modernity and literary modernism as phenomena, concepts and fields of research; including their interrelation
- an ability to identify, formulate and apply relevant scholary approaches to modernity and modernism
Content
Theories of modernity and modernism and their interrelation.
Entry requirements
Admittance requires a Bachelor's Degree (90 HE Credits; levels A, B and C) in Comparative Literature.
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Teaching form
Teaching will mainly consist of lectures and seminars.
Examination form
Assessment is based on the work in the seminar, including written and oral presentations, and on written answers to a concluding exam.
Grading system
Seven-grade scale, A, B, C, D, E, Fx and F. Fx and F represent fail levels.
Other information
If the examiner approves, the course can alternative be taken in another subject on the advanced level; either at the Mid Sweden University or elswhwere.
The course i part of the Master's Programme in Comparative Literature, 60 HE Credits.
Course reading
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
- Comment: A Comparable work in English.
- 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. In English: Bourdieu, Pierre, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Stucture of the Literary Field (1992), Stanford University Press 1996.
- Author: Berman, Marshall
- Title: Allt som är fast förflyktigas. Modernism och modernitet
- Ort: Lund
- Edition: 1987
- Comment: In English: Berman, Marshall, All that Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982), Verso 1983.
- 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.
- Comment: In English: Benjamin, Walter, "The Author as Producer"; "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"; "Paris, Capital of the 19th Century"; "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire".