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LIT3068 – Gothic Worlds 1750-1900
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Phillippa Bennett
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Gothic Worlds 1750-1900 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Gothic Worlds 1750-1900, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine the development of Gothic Literature from its inception in the mid eighteenth century to the modernized urban Gothic of the late nineteenth century. The module will situate the genre in its wider cultural and historical contexts and consider how the Gothic imagination expresses itself aesthetically, culturally and politically during this period.
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LIT3075 – Good Society and Bad Society: Shakespeare to Behn
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Richard Chamberlain
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Good Society And Bad Society: Shakespeare To Behn, Coursework: 100% STD - Good Society And Bad Society: Shakespeare To Behn, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module explores ideas of human freedom and social justice in the literature of the early modern period, linking art?s utopian potential and historical liberation struggles. It examines a range of genres and authors in the light of their cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and discusses their relevance to today.
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LIT3076 – Literature and Revolution
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Claire Allen
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Literature And Revolution, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Literature And Revolution, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to critically evaluate literature which in someway can be considered as representing, evoking, or playing a part in revolution. The texts studied represent diverse literary forms and modes of literatures which address moments of social upheaval, ideological change, or innovation, including within literary form itself.
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LIT3077 – Bodies and Performances: Thinking Sex and Gender
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Sonya Andermahr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Bodies And Performances: Thinking Sex And Gender, Coursework: 100% STD - Bodies And Performances: Thinking Sex And Gender, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The module examines a range of literary texts in the modern period in the light of changing and ongoing debates about sex, gender and sexuality. Focusing on the representation of bodies and/in performance, it examines works by writers from a variety of backgrounds including writing by women and sexual minorities.
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LIT3078 – Publicity & Privacy: American Authors and Celebrity
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Rod Rosenquist
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Publicity & Privacy: American Authors And Celebrity, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Publicity & Privacy: American Authors And Celebrity, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore the relationship between modern American literature and the emergence of new cultures of publicity and celebrity from the late ninteenth to the twenty-first century. It will explore specific tensions in the modern age between public and private versions of the self.
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LIT3079 – Texts in Transition: Adaptation
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Texts In Transition: Adaptation, Coursework: 100% STD - Texts In Transition: Adaptation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module critically examines the variety of processes that can be considered under the aegis of 'adaptation'. Students explore the changing ideological and economic relationships between the source text and its adapted forms through theories of authorship, fidelity, intertextuality and genre. Students are encouraged to consider the intellectual and creative tensions that exist in cross-media retellings of print material.
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LIT4016 – English Dissertation
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Phillippa Bennett
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - English Dissertation (English), Coursework: 100% STDEN - English Dissertation (English), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English;
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative. In either case, they will bring to bear on their subject matter the analytical techniques learnt during their degree.
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LIT4017 – Media English and Culture Short Dissertation
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Richard Chamberlain
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: Compulsory Level 5 modules from appropriate Award Map.
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDEN - Media English And Culture Short Dissertation (English), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module is available to joint honours students who are not majoring in a English and Creative Writing award as designated on specific award maps. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative. In either case, they will bring to bear on their subject matter the analytical techniques learnt during their degree.
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LIT4018 – Media English and Culture Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation A
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Richard Chamberlain
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: A joint dissertation module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STD - Media English And Culture Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation A, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module is available to students registered for Joint Honours. Combined with the co-requisite module in another subject it provides an opportunity for students to complete a 40-credit dissertation on a topic which links the two subjects studied. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative. In either case, they will bring to bear on their subject matter the analytical techniques learnt during their degree.