Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Situate theories of genre within their respective intellectual and historical contexts.
- Plan and write essays on the topic of genre in literary studies.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify lines of enquiry about the relationship between literary genre and cultural change
- Apply appropriate critical and historical approaches to different literary genres
- Describe and evaluate the state of research and scholarship on literary genres
- Identify and develop a topic for further research which might form the basis of an MA dissertation.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Current key debates in genre studies
- How critical, cultural and scholarly material contributes to the ways we think about literary genres
- Genres such as allegory, the bildungsroman, epic,the gothic, or romance
- What is at stake in the use, subversion and combination of literary genres
- Specific issues raised by topics including: experiments with genre, the relationship between social change and formal innovation, the ethics and politics of representation
- Key questions raised by critical concepts, including: genre and subjectivity; gender, genre, and sexuality; genre, property and dispossession; genres of embodiment; genres of empire and decolonization; genres of race, extractivism, and affect; genres of the post-human
- How to research and develop an appropriate topic on genre using sources from criticism and literary history
- How specific literary genres are used to make sense of wider historical, social, political, economic and technological transformations
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate the capacity for self-directed problem-solving and independent work within a strict time-frame
- Draw upon a range of relevant primary and secondary sources to explore specific historical and literary questions;
- Identify and outline the main debates in a given field
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Conceptualize historical and cultural issues in new ways as a result of close textual analysis
- Identify and analyse the shifting historical frameworks through which genre is understood
- Synthesize and integrate the analysis of primary sources and secondary texts in a coherent written argument
- Critically evaluate both primary source materials and arguments in secondary texts
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 20 |
Independent Study | 280 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
John Frow (2006). Genre.
David Duff (2000). Modern Genre Theory.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External