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ENG 274 Modernist Fiction
1 Term, 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the themes and forms of modernist fiction within their
cultural and historical milieus. Primarily, we take up the core epistemological question in
Modernism (the so-called “crisis of representation”), and then the ideological and psycholog-
ical significance of modernist experimentations, their narratology and its impact on the
constructions of history, of memory and of personal as well as cultural identity. Students
survey the works of major modernist writers such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest
Hemingway etc.

ENG 282 Persuasive Writing
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity to enhance critical reading and writing skills
necessary for the practice of persuasive academic writing. Areas covered include analysis of
controversial issues and texts, identifying logical fallacies, citing and documenting credible
secondary sources, developing an awareness of opposing positions, and crafting effective
refutations. Significant class time will be allotted to writing in a workshop environment with
peer review of drafts by the instructor and other students.

ENG 283 Literature and Film
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the kindred relationships between
literature and film. It will concentrate on the essential differences as well as similarities among
genres such as novel, film, drama/theatre, and poetry, etc. Theories on the print culture and
media culture respectively will be brought forth, in order for students to have a firm grasp of
their different modes of operation, aesthetics and representation, and also how the two merge
under specific circumstances. Issues in adaptation where literary versions can be juxtaposed
with their filmic counterparts will be discussed.

ENG 284 Modern Drama
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with modern drama and its characteris-
tics. The course will examine a few representative plays from the modern period and survey
the major aesthetic and cultural movements of the twentieth century.

ENG 305 Technoscience Culture
1 Term; 3 Credits
With the fast developments in technoscience in the modern world, it is important to in-
troduce to students the ways technosciences and mass media bear on our sense of identity
and subjectivity. The aim of this course is to initiate students to the relevance of literature as
cultural text to such a phenomenon, and to help them discover the way literary arts and visual
imaginary respond to the different ramifications of contemporary technosciences which has

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