| Module Identifier |
EN36720 |
| Module Title |
LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST: THE C19TH WEST |
| Academic Year |
2002/2003 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Martin Padget |
| Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
| Next year offered |
N/A |
| Next semester offered |
N/A |
| Course delivery |
Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. 10 x 2 hour seminar workshops |
| Assessment |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 x 2,500 word essays | 100% |
| |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. | |
Learning outcomes
This module aims to:
Situate the American West using historical, geographical, cultural and ecological criteria
Examine images of the nineteenth-century West in literature and other media up to the mid twentieth century
Ask what ideologies and practices sustained the expansion of Euro-Americans into the West during the Nineteenth Century, and to examine how literary and visual representations sustained, questioned and contested those ideologies
On completion of the module students should be better able to:
demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of issues relating to the form and content of the writing
articulare this knowledge and understanding accurately and coherently in speech and writing.
Brief description
To situate the American West using historical, geographical, cultural and ecological criteria
To examine images of the nineteenth-century West in literature and other media up to the mid-twentieth century
To ask what ideologies and practices sustained the expansion of Euro-Americans into the West during the nineteenth Century, and to examine how literary and visual representations sustained, questioned and contested those ideologies
On completion of the module students should be better able to:
demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of issues relating to the form and content of the writing
articulate this knowledge and understanding accurately and coherently in speech and writing.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Bill Brown (ed.). (1997)
Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Westerns.
Zane Grey. (1912)
Riders of the Purple Sage.
James Fenimore Cooper. (1826)
The Last of the Mohicans.
John Rollin Ridge. (1841)
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit.
Caroline Kirkland. (1841)
A New Home - Who'll Follow? Or Glimpses of Western Life.
Mark Twain. (1972)
Roughing It.