Competences

• a)Differentiate between Literatures of Victorianism and Modernism through the appreciation of change in style and form, a selection of literary themes and thematic handling and Modernist concerns, which find their way in the literatures of Modernism;
• b)Critically evaluate the different styles that define Modernism and the proliferation of novel modes of expression which led to a pronounced diversity of styles and different aspects of Modernism;
• c)Critically identify the influences of the key themes that contributed to the evolution of Modernist Literature and which propelled Modernist Literatures into being;
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Knowledge

• a)Identify what the term ‘Modernism’ may encompass– as a movement, an era, a philosophy, a genre or style of art, and style of writing;
• b)Demonstrate an appreciation of the importance of Early Modernist Literature in the evolution of literary form, style and convention, as distinctive from that of late Victorianism and knowledge of Modernist Critical Literary Theory, such as that of the interface with late Victorianism, such as John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold, Chris Baldick, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce;
• c)Comprehend the influences of  the key themes that contributed to the evolution of Modernist Literature and which propelled Modernist Literatures into being, such as the end of the Decadent era and the sense of an ending, Darwinian and Galtonian Evolutionary theory, eugenics, the Great War and Second World War, the synthesis of the arts and philosophy, as well as psychology, with literature, politics, and the replacement of religion through art;
• d)Examine the Modernist phenomena of Literature as that which exists within diversity, driven by the need to create anew and to embody diversification at a very intense and proliferated pace in line with artistic movements which sought to eliminate the baggage of the past, contained within language;
• e)Analyse how Modernist writers responded to shifting social, cultural, and imperial contexts, contributing to evolving debates about what constitutes English literature;
• f)Develop a sound knowledge of the sedimentation and filtration of influences into literature emanating from the fields of philosophy and the arts.
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Skills

• a)Discuss Modernist themes and issues in an open and objective manner—including the ways in which Modernist authors broke with Victorian traditions, questioned established norms, and redefined literary form and language to explore complex themes of identity, consciousness, and society;
• b)Comment objectively and critically on the evolution of literary forms and structures in Modernist literature, examining how these changes reflect shifting perspectives on individuality and notions of the self, society, industrialisation, mechanisation, the fear of the machine, technology and mechanisation, Futurism and human and artistic expression;
• c)Evaluate the diverse range of stylistic and thematic innovations in Modernist literature, with attention to how these developments responded to and influenced contemporary philosophical, political, and cultural shifts, including the move away from Victorian norms and the embracing of experimentation with abstraction and fragmentation in narrative and form and how this, in turn, led to a change in human consciousness.
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