| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 5,000 word essay Essay: | |
| Supplementary Assessment | 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 a knowledge of the issues associated with postmodernism in relation to contemporary British literature;
2. demonstrate an ability to employ this specialist knowledge in an extended critical and analytical essay;
3. demonstrate an ability to perform comparative critical analysis at an advanced level of research.
This option will focus on postmodern experiments within the genre of the English-language novel in both contemporary British and American writing, and specifically at the way in which history is reconfigured, rewritten, and reshaped, as it increasingly becomes the critical site of the formation of cultural identity. The range of novels will embrace formal experimentation, challenges to the modes of representation traditionally associated with the novel, and a concern with the gender and racial implications of postmodernism in the novel.
This module is at CQFW Level 7