Module Identifier | EN10520 | ||
Module Title | CONTEMPORARY WRITING | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Richard J Marggraf-Turley | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Caroline Bate, Mrs Carol M Marshall, Mr Ian Davidson, Iona Italia, Julia H M Reid, Marie Hockenhull Smith, Dr Matthew R Jarvis, Mr Michael J Smith | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours (20 x 1 hour lectures: two per week for 10 weeks) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours (10 x 1 hour seminars) | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours (Answer two questions on a two hour examination paper) | 50% |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (1,500-2,000 words) | 50% | |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
- read literary texts in an informed and critical way;
- discuss literary texts coherently;
- write about literary texts in a well-structured and well-argued manner.
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 (Penguin, 1995)
A.S. Byatt, Elementals, 1998
Negotiating Identities:
Karen McCarthy (ed.) Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry (Two Women's Press, 1998)
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (Faber, 1997)
Dissident Desires:
Jonathan Harvey, Beautiful Thing (Methuen, 1996)
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (Vintage 1996)
Travelling Generations:
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Penguin 2001)
Alex Garland, The Beach (Penguin, 1996)
(Subject to release of videos, we shall also consider the new film adaptations of both titles)