Modern World Literatures EN 123 EN 2 JZ

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Modern World Literatures EN 123 EN 2 JZ and EN 3 JZ (Honours variant)

Modern World Literatures EN 123 EN 2 JZ and EN 3 JZ (Honours variant)

Thank you This is not normal There will be hiccups, but also silver

Thank you This is not normal There will be hiccups, but also silver linings

What is modern? What is modernity? All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of

What is modern? What is modernity? All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. (Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto)

To be modern … is to experience personal and social life as a

To be modern … is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one’s world and oneself in perpetual disintegration and renewal, trouble and anguish, ambiguity and contradiction: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air. (Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity)

Jean-Baptiste Thonesse, Liberty Travelling over the World (17921796)

Jean-Baptiste Thonesse, Liberty Travelling over the World (17921796)

Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos 43 (“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”) (1799)

Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos 43 (“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”) (1799)

Yinka Shonibare, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Africa and Asia) (2008)

Yinka Shonibare, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Africa and Asia) (2008)

The fine print: assessments Formative: - A 1 -page response to an historical document

The fine print: assessments Formative: - A 1 -page response to an historical document from the EN 123 moodle (week 5, term 1) - A presentation on a modern historical, intellectual or artistic movement, to be delivered or recorded in term 2 - A group video presentation on a post-1989 work of modern world literature, to be delivered in term 3 Summative: - a 1, 500 -word close reading of a passage due in term 1 - a 2, 500 -word comparative essay due in term 2 - a 3, 000 -word portfolio due in term 3

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