Literature And War from 1914 to the Present
Module Code: MELEN4LAW
Module Convenor: Dr Andrew Palmer|
This option module is open to all MA students.
This module examines fiction and poetry written about war from 1914. It proceeds chronologically, considering literary responses to particular conflicts. Issues raised will include: the ethics of aestheticizing war; the role of literary representations in memorialising of war; the distinctions between representations of different conflicts; the differences between the writing of various groups (combatants, women involved in war, writers writing about events in which they were not involved).
Assessment
4,000 word research essay (100%)
Illustrative Module Texts
Students are advised not to buy books until the set texts for each year have been finalized.
Texts will be chosen from a list which may include but is not restricted to:
Dominic Hibberd and John Onions, eds. The Winter of the World: Poems of the Great War. London: Constable, 2008.
Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. 1929. London: Vintage, 1996.
Desmond Graham, Ed. Poetry of the Second World War: An International Anthology. Pimlico, 1998.
Henry Green. Caught. Harvill, 2001.
W. D. Ehrhart, Ed. Carrying the Darkness: the Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1989.Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1989.
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried. 1990. Flamingo, 1991.
Brian Turner, Here, Bullet. 2005. Bloodaxe, 2007.