LT394-6-SP-CO:
Law and Literature
2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
30 August 2022
Requisites for this module
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This module will examine the interrelationship between law and literature from a variety of perspectives. The module reflects research interests of staff in the Law School and Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies. There is increasing academic interest in interdisciplinary study in law, and there is an established body of scholarship examining the relationship between law and literature from a variety of perspectives.
The perspectives examined in the module will include, but not be confined to, the representation of law in literature, legal texts as literature and how techniques of literary interpretation can inform the study and understanding of law. The module will also present the opportunity for students to examine the nature of interdisciplinary work, exemplified by the study of law and literature.
The aim of this module is to explore introductions to relevant literary theory and legal theory, examining issues of textuality, authorship and interpretation as well as contexts. In addition to close reading of selected texts, seminars will explore such issues as justice, morality, and reasoning, trials and courts, campaigns for legal reform, anarchy, crime and punishment, the concepts of race, human rights, migration and theatre and international crimes.
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
1) Write essays which analyse topics exploring the relationship between literature and law, making use of appropriate vocabulary and techniques, appropriate to this level of study.
2) Demonstrate an awareness of theoretical contexts and frameworks for the study of literature and law.
3) Demonstrate an awareness of the implications of the interdisciplinary study of literature and law
4) Illustrate through comparative analysis the way in which literature and law may be related.
No additional information available.
Anticipated teaching delivery: Weekly 1-hour lecture plus 1-hour seminar
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Coursework |
Reflective Log |
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20% |
Coursework |
Online Portfolio (Completion of discussion forum posts on Moodle. No submission to FASer) |
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15% |
Coursework |
Summative Essay |
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60% |
Coursework |
Participation |
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5% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Katharine Cockin, email: k.m.cockin@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Clotilde Pegorier, email: c.pegorier@essex.ac.uk.
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LiFTS General Office - liftstt@essex.ac.uk
Tel. (01206) 872626
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Dr Eleanor Perry
University of Kent
Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry)
Available via Moodle
Of 654 hours, 0 (0%) hours available to students:
654 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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