Modernism
Competence aims in focus:
The aims of the studies are to enable students to:
- interpret a representative selection of texts from literary-historical periods in English literature, from the Renaissance up to the present time
- elaborate on and discuss the relationship between form, content and stylistic register in sentences and texts
- have a command of the terminology needed for analysing works of fiction, films and other aesthetic forms of expression
- interpret literary texts and other cultural expressions from a cultural-historical and social perspective
- analyse and assess … a selection of other artistic forms of expression within English-language culture
(Translation: udir.no)
Radio: Great Lives
Ernest Hemingway chosen by Michael Palin.
Michael Palin first came across his Great Life when he was studying for school exams, and his love of Ernest Hemingway has never gone away.
Links
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BBC Radio 4: Great Lives
(bbc.co. uk)
Listening: Literary Modernism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss literary modernism on BBC Radio 4.
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In Our Time: Literary Modernism
(bbc.co. uk)
Articles and Resources
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Poets: Modernism
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Introduction to Modernist Poetry (3 Lessons)
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The USA: Modernism and Experimentation 1914-1945
(usa.usembassy. de) -
James Joyce: Life
(jamesjoyce.ie) -
Virginia Woolf Documentary
(youtube.com) -
The 100 best novels: No 50 – Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
(theguardian.com) -
Wilfred Owen
(poetryfoundation.org) -
Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est (poetry slideshow)
(bbc.co. uk) -
H.D.
(poets.org) -
e.e. cummings
(english.illinois. edu) -
William Carlos Williams
(poets.org) -
Dorothy Parker
(biography.com) -
W.H. Auden
(bbc.co. uk) -
Wallace Stevens
(poets.org) -
Evolution Of A Song: 'Strange Fruit'
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William Faulkner: Biography and video
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Video: The writings of William Faulkner (C-Span)
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George Orwell (BBC)
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Video: Understanding Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"
(youtube.com)