Eng426 20th century english literature

Course Modules and Units

This course is divided into four modules. There are four units under each module which breaks down each module into bits that will enable the student to understand various aspects of the twentieth century English literature. In all, there are twenty units in this course. Below is the break- down of the modules.

Module 1- Introduction to Modernism

Unit 1: Britain, the Age of Change and the Old and the New Literature Unit 2: Modernist Thematic Concerns, Styles and Techniques.
Unit 3: Modernism, Post Modernism, and the Twentieth English Literature Unit 4: Post-Modernist Themes and Techniques

Module 2: The Novel in the Twentieth Century English Literature

Unit 1: Virginia Woolf: A Woman at the Fore Unit 2: D.H Lawrence and Vitality
Unit 3: Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Unit 4: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of The Day.

Module 3: Twentieth Century English Poetry

Unit 1: T.S Eliot’s “The Wasteland” Unit 2: W.H Auden’s Pessimistic Poetry Unit 3: W.B Yeats and Modernist Poetry
Unit 4: Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

Module 4: Twentieth Century English Drama

Unit 1: Samuel Beckett’s Theatre of the Absurd
Unit 2: George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
Unit 3: Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
Unit 4: T.S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

Recommended Reading

Primary Materials

Prose

Virginia Woolf-Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce-The Portrait of an Artist as A Youngman
D. H Lawrence-Lady Chatterley’s Lover Graham Greene-The Power and the Glory Drama
Samuel Beckett- Waiting For Godot
George Bernard Shaw- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
T.S Elliot- Murder in the Cathedral Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. Poetry
T.S Eliot- “The Wasteland”
W.B Yeats “Second Coming”
W.H Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks, Cut the Telephones” Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”