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LIT207 RESIT ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

(1) Choose ONE of the assigned readings of 20^th century fiction that has been considered as an example of “modernism”. Using this text as your primary example, argue for the difference between “modernist fiction” and ONE of the three prior literary modes which existed before it and in some cases continued alongside it: a) literary realism, b.) popular fiction, or c.) Romanticism. You can also consider arguing for continuities between modernism and the other literary modes. As part of your answer, include at least some close textual comparison between your chosen text of ‘modernism’ (whether assigned in the module or chosen by the student) and another text that is widely acknowledged as a good representative of one of the three literary modes (a, b, c).

Examples of key representative texts are given in the second paragraph below. Texts for comparison should be no later in publication date than 1965. Do appropriate critical research on your text and on the relevant literary modes mentioned above, using at least one peer-reviewed book or article in addition to other legitimate secondary sources. Use close analysis of examples (especially direct quotations of at least one sentence in length) from your chosen primary text and any other texts that are relevant to the question. Following the comparison, your paper should attempt to reach some conclusion about how differences in the texts reflect differences in the literary modes or movements. You may wish to consider ideas relating to society, philosophy, nature, psychology, morality, aesthetics, and literary language as tools of comparison.

Well-known recommended keys texts of “Realism” include the influential works of Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen (in English translation), the works of Henry James, George Eliot, and Harley Granville-Barker, and Herman Melville’s London-published “Bartleby the Scrivener”; post-war examples of realism are too numerous to mention, but include Alan Sillitoe and the dramas of Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, and Arnold Wesker.

Key texts of popular fiction run the gamut from the works of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope to those of Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien , Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bram Stoker, P.C. Wren, H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, and to H.G. Wells’ social comedies.

Recommended key texts of Romanticism are Wordsworth’s major poems, his Preface of 1800, Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and other works, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and other essays the Odes of Keats and Shelley, the works of Thomas Carlyle and Henry David Thoreau, and the fiction of Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, and Hawthorne.

ADDITONAL GUIDANCE

This assessment counts towards 100% of the module mark. The resit for LIT207 takes place in 2025 (Spring semester) in the form of an essay.

The essay should be about 1450 words in length (10% over or under is acceptable). Please note that the word count excludes Works Cited but includes in-text citations.

Format is Times New Roman 12-point font, 1.5 or double spacing.

Please read the essay questions carefully and state which one is being attempted. The essay should be structured and focused. Marks are awarded to essays which provide a close reading of the text(s) in relation to literary and/or historical context(s). Engagement with a range of secondary sources is recommended; good, reliable sources include peer-reviewed academic books and journal articles (for example, the recommended readings on LMO). Please ask Module Leader for more info or assistance. Well-informed personal responses and opinions are valued more highly than mere recitation of facts and opinions from other sources. Consultation of the full and complete version of Oxford English Dictionary  (OED) is regarded as an extremely important practice.As a good academic practice, referencing is essential. Both primary and secondary sources need to be referenced, and page numbers should be provided for direct quotations. For the correct format of referencing, please refer to the Harvard Referencing Guide (available on Learning Mall and the University Library website). Please note that all submissions are subject to Turnitin originality check. CHECK THE MODULE HANDBOOK’S STATEMENT ON PLAGIARISM AND AI.

When submitting the essay, please attach a cover sheet and upload a Word file on LMO by the end of 25 July 2025 (This date may be subject to change due to the coordination of assessment practices at the programme or departmental level and will be confirmed later in the semester).

The submission should be named: Name_Student No._LIT207_CW.doc(x). THE STUDENT’S NAME AND NUMBER MUST ALSO BE GIVEN IN THE FIRST LINE OF THE ESSAY PAPER.  

Marking will be conducted by teaching staff on the module according to the University Marking Descriptors. All marks are provisional until confirmed and released by Registry.