Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Module Identifier
EN10520
Module Title
CONTEMPORARY WRITING
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Other Staff
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
---|---|
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours. (10 x 1 hour seminars) |
Lecture | 20 Hours. (20 x 1 hour lectures: two per week for 10 weeks) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
---|---|---|
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 x 2000 word essays | 50% |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours (Answer two questions on a two hour examination paper) | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | 2 Hours Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements |
Learning Outcomes
On the completion of this module students should typically be better able to:
1. read literary texts in an informed and critical way;
2. discuss literary texts coherently;
3. write about literary texts in a well-structured and well-argued manner.
Aims
This module aims:
1. to introduce students to key aspects of contemporary writing in English through a wide range of forms, style, and linguistic registers in poetry, short fiction, drama, and film;
2. to introduce students to a range of current issues and debates in English Studies and contemporary writing;
3. to increase the reading range of students and encourage them to become reflective and responsive readers.
1. to introduce students to key aspects of contemporary writing in English through a wide range of forms, style, and linguistic registers in poetry, short fiction, drama, and film;
2. to introduce students to a range of current issues and debates in English Studies and contemporary writing;
3. to increase the reading range of students and encourage them to become reflective and responsive readers.
Brief description
This module introduces a range of contemporary writing in English covering a wide variety of forms, styles, and linguistic registers: tales, short-fiction, poetry, drama, film-adaptations, elements of pulp fiction, modernist and post-modernist fiction. The set texts raise a number of critical issues concerning literary form and language, cultural positioning and social identity. They are arranged under four thematic headings: 'Class', 'Negotiating Identities', 'Sexualities' and 'Cultures in Contact'. This approach will enable students to engage with the sort of theoretical work they will encounter at a higher level in Part Two.
Content
There will be two lectures each week. Each topic will be introduced in a general lecture, and each of the set texts will be examined in two lectures, one specifically on the text, the other on a wider range of issues raised by the text.
In the seminars, students can present and investigate their own ideas on the meaning and worth of the set texts. What has the text communicated to you personally, and how does your opinion relate to those of other students and critics?
_Set Texts
_Class:
In the seminars, students can present and investigate their own ideas on the meaning and worth of the set texts. What has the text communicated to you personally, and how does your opinion relate to those of other students and critics?
_Set Texts
_Class:
- Tony Harrison, 'Selected Poems'
- A.S. Byatt, 'Elementals'
- Charlotte Williams, 'Sugar and Slate' Jeff Noon, 'Vurt'
- Jackie Kay, 'Trumpet'
- Jeanette Winterson, 'The Passion'
- Zadie Smith, 'White Teeth'
- Alex Garland, 'The Beach'
Reading List
Should Be PurchasedA.S. Byatt (1998) Elementals Vintage Primo search Alex Garland (1996) The Beach Penguin Primo search Charlotte Williams (2002) Sugar and Slate Planet Primo search Jeanette Winterson (1996) The Passion Vintage Primo search Kay, Jackie (1999) Trumpet Picador Primo search Noon, Jeff (2001) Vurt Pan Macmillan Primo search Tony Harrison (1995) Selected Poems Penguin Primo search Zadie Smith (2001) White Teeth Penguin Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4