| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1.5-hour seminars |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1. A textuality `case study or `audit for a text from the area of the students intending specialization. This will aim to cover the full spectrum of textuality for the selected text. (2000 words) | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | 2. A detailed study of one aspect of the textuality of a text, from the area of the students intending specialization. This will aim to demonstrate an awareness of the methodological and theoretical foundations on which the approach is based. (3000 words) | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | RESUBMIT FAILED ELEMENTS Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the nature and scope of the many facets of textuality which
feature in literary research;
2. Demonstrate an ability to embody this theoretical knowledge and understanding in the research and
analysis of specific literary works;
3. Demonstrate an ability to contextualise and justify a preferred methodological approach in the
context of the totality of the approaches which might have been taken.
The purpose of this module is to develop to postgraduate level the interpretive, evaluative, and research skills on which English Studies are based, using the focal idea of 'textuality' in its broadest sense.
The module will illustrate, and interrogate the different kinds of 'textuality', or aspects of the literary text, which need to be taken into account in the study of literature at postgraduate level and beyond. A brief list of selected literary texts, chosen to highlight the issues raised, will be used to give specificity to the exposition and discussion.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | N/A |
| Communication | Students will need to argue persuasively to demonstrate the cogency of their approach and the significance of their findings. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | This will take place throughout the module, in response to discussion, and especially between the first and second assignment. |
| Information Technology | Students will need to make use of on-line materials to locate data and documentation relevant to their chosen areas of special study, but this aspect will not be separately assessed. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | N/A |
| Problem solving | Required at all stages, but especially in deciding how to reconcile the claims of the different kinds of textuality in a given instance. |
| Research skills | Students will need to research relevant factual data in their chosen area and then present this material judiciously but fairly in the light of their chosen interpretive emphasis. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Evaluating the practical and theoretical implications of broad intellectual concepts. |
| Team work | This will take place in so far as the seminars will be collaborative exchanges of views, but team work will not be assessed. |
This module is at CQFW Level 7