Modes of narration in modernist literature:
Paper instructions:
Question: Modes of narration in modernist literature often challenge the idea of objective knowledge and truth, instead foregrounding how knowledge is partial and truth unstable. Explore this statement in relation to two texts, ‘The sound and the fury’ and T.S Elliot’s ‘The waste land’.
Assessment Requirements: This assessment task requires you to discuss two works of literature studied in this unit in relation to one of the topics below. One of the texts you discuss in your essay must be a longer work (e.g. Mrs Dalloway; The Waste Land; Mother Courage and Her Children; The Sound and the Fury). The only exception to this rule is Question 6 on Surrealism.
Where relevant, in your essay you may refer to examples from the visual arts that have been discussed in the lectures (e.g. painting, film).
Your essay should 1) develop a clear and coherent line of argument in relation to the set topic; 2) compare and contrast the two literary texts in relation to the set topic; 3) demonstrate an understanding of the key techniques and cultural/historical contexts of modernism, as relevant to the set topic.