ENG-20066 - Methods and Approaches to Literature
Coordinator: Susan Bruce Room: CBB2.060 Tel: +44 1782 7 34119
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Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
To study selected literary texts with reference to important methods and approaches in literary and cultural theory.
To enable students to reflect on the social contexts and political ideologies that have informed the production of literary texts.
To provide students with a knowledge of various critical frameworks (cultural and literary) such as feminist theory, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and to develop an ability to work with these as part of an independent critical practice.
To enable students to appreciate and analyse the emergence and significance of different literary styles.
To account for the importance of gender, class, sexual and racial identities in the literature covered on the module.

Intended Learning Outcomes

identify and evaluate the usefulness of critical approaches and theories such as formalism, poststructuralism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gender studies, book history, and literature and space: 1,2
apply to literary analysis the traits of critical approaches and theories such as formalism, poststructuralism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gender studies, book history, and literature and space: 1,2
construct and support a theoretically informed argument in written work: 1,2

Study hours

lectures (11 hours)
supervised workshops (11 hours)
small group classes (11 hours)
individual consultation/feedback (1 hour)
seminar preparation and private study (68 hours)
essay writing and preparation (40 hours)
formative exercise preparation and writing (8 hours)

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Short Paper weighted 30%
Short Paper weighted 30%
800-word evaluative summary and précis of an extract from a theoretical text.

2: Essay weighted 70%
Essay weighted 70%
1700 word essay. Students will be asked to choose one from a list of c. 10 essay questions.