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LITM033 – Critical Theory and Methodologies
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 30
Level: 7
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: AUT - Critical Theory And Methodologies, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: MA English (Contemporary Literature);
Description: The purpose of this module is to introduce students to a variety of methods applicable to research in contemporary literary and cultural studies. It delivers key guidance on master?s level study, promotes an informed awareness of theoretical models, and helps students use theoretical concepts in textual analysis.
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LITM040 – Trauma Fiction
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Sonya Andermahr
Credit Value: 30
Level: 7
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: SPR - Trauma Fiction, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: MA English (Contemporary Literature);
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine trauma literature since the 1980s in the context of contemporary trauma theory. Focussing on concepts such as unrepresentability, aporia and narrative rupture, it analyses the relationship between narrative form and traumatic subject matter and how texts transform traumatic memory into narrative events.
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LITM041 – Literary Transmediations
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 30
Level: 7
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: SPR - Literary Transmediations, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: MA English (Contemporary Literature);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore the nature of adaptation in popular media and the different ways it has been studied. Adaptation occurs between many different forms and modes and the module will examine new and different ways to view adaptation as, for example, translation, appropriation, or reimagining.
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LITM042 – Shakespeare our Contemporary: Text and Screen
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Richard Chamberlain
Credit Value: 30
Level: 7
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: AUT - Shakespeare Our Contemporary: Text And Screen, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: MA English (Contemporary Literature);
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine Shakespeare as a facet of contemporary culture, principally through its manifestations in recent fiction and film. Discussions of Shakespeare?s cultural ubiquity and longevity will be framed by concepts such as power, ideology, discourse, hegemony, presentism, appropriation, adaptation, and performance.
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LITM043 – Dissertation
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 60
Level: 7
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: LITM033
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: AUTPT - Dissertation (September Cohort Pt, 3 Terms), Coursework: 100% SPR - Dissertation (September Cohort, 2 Terms), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: MA English (Contemporary Literature);
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide an opportunity to carry out independent research of considerable depth over a sustained period of time on a topic of their own choosing, working with a supervisor to build on and extend scholarly understanding of contemporary literature.