Module Identifier | EN10520 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | CONTEMPORARY WRITING | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Richard J Marggraf-Turley | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Mrs Carol M Marshall, Dr Julia H M Reid, Ms Louise Marshall, Marie Hockenhull Smith, Dr Matthew R Jarvis, Dr Richard J Marggraf-Turley | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours (10 x 1 hour seminars) | |||||||||||||
Lecture | 20 Hours (20 x 1 hour lectures: two per week for 10 weeks) | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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- 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:
Charlotte Williams, Sugar and Slate (Planet 2002)
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (Faber, 1997)
Sexualities:
Jonathan Harvey, Beautiful Thing (Methuen, 1996)
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (Vintage 1996)
Cultures in Contact:
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)
This module is at CQFW Level 4