Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6115ENGL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To establish terrorism as a significant and persistent literary, political and cultural preoccupation in modern literature (1880s to present), and examine key instances in which the language and concept of terror is at issue;
2. To enable students to explore the ways that moral, aesthetic and political concerns circulate in culture and public life;
3. To give students the opportunity to develop a research interest in a related area.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Show an awareness of the cultural and historical context behind literary explorations of terrorism during the late Victorian, modernist and postmodernist periods,
2.
Deploy a range of skills relevant to the analysis of the representation and discourse of political violence: textual criticism, independent research, application and evaluation of various theoretical approaches;
3.
Accept complete accountability for presenting their own ideas about given reading
material and set the terms for further discussion.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The module will be taught in three sections, after an introduction establishing the
literary, cultural and political dimensions of the question of terrorism, and
establishing contexts, such as understanding the origins of modern terrorism at the end of the nineteenth century as a form of political protest against imperialism and capitalism.
1. Exploring literary responses to such outbreaks and understanding these in relation to trends and innovations in literature from the 1880s to the present, concentrating on selected late Victorian, modernist and postmodernist texts;
2. Establishing the relationship between literary aesthetics and terrorism: engaging with the relationship between literary and political shocks; political violence and modernity;
3. Understanding terrorism and anti-colonial violence, particularly in relation to the fiction published around the 7/7 attacks.
Module Overview:
Terrorism and Modern Literature will establish terrorism as a significant and persistent literary, political and cultural preoccupation in modern literature (1880s to present), and examine key instances in which the language and concept of terror is at issue.
Terrorism and Modern Literature will establish terrorism as a significant and persistent literary, political and cultural preoccupation in modern literature (1880s to present), and examine key instances in which the language and concept of terror is at issue.
Additional Information:This module concentrates on literature's exploration of the relationship between
political violence and modernity. Concentrating on selected texts published from the 1880s to the present (including literature written by supporters and critics of
terrorism), it will address the ways in which collisions between radical politics and
literary aesthetics have underlined innovations in fiction, particularly the novel.
Students will have the opportunity to study the ways in which literary texts address ideological conflicts between imperialism and nationalism, and capitalism and socialism. In addition, they will encounter philosophical and theoretical perspectives addressing terrorism and state violence.