LT111-4-FY-CO:
Literature: Origins and Transformations
2015/16
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
30
05 November 2002
Requisites for this module
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LT146, LT209
BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW24 Drama and Literature,
BA WQ42 Drama and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QT37 English and United States Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA T720 English and United States Literature,
BA QQ23 English Language and Literature,
BA QQ32 English Language and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA Q300 English Literature,
BA Q320 English Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q321 English Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA PQ32 Film Studies and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW26 Film Studies and Literature,
BA QV21 History and Literature,
BA QV2C History and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA VQ12 History and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QV23 Literature and Art History,
BA QV2H Literature and Art History (Including Foundation Year),
BA QV32 Literature and Art History (Including Year Abroad),
BA LQ32 Literature and Sociology,
BA QL23 Literature and Sociology (Including Year Abroad),
BA QV25 Philosophy and Literature,
BA VQ52 Philosophy and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA VQ5F Philosophy and Literature (Including Year Abroad)
The Introduction to Literature module serves as a foundation for degree programmes in Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at Essex, as well as an option with many of its own unique and vital qualities.
The module consists of six units, each based on a common genre or theme (i.e. Tragedy, Comedy, Epic & Narrative, the Underworld, Metamorphosis and The Other). There are two or three lectures in each unit, and each lecture looks at a key text or texts (see the list of Primary Texts).
An understanding of these key genres and themes will provide students with sound foundations upon which they can build throughout their degree. The module honours the comparative emphasis that defines our Department, and the Faculty of Humanities and Comparative Study generally, by drawing links between texts from different centuries, cultures and continents. Notably, the module examines the ways that key literary texts, for example Homer's Odyssey or Dante's Inferno, and key literary genres, for example tragedy or comedy, are borrowed from, rewritten, retranslated or reworked by successive generations of writers, up to the present day. In this way, the module seeks to understand long cultural traditions. Lectures and seminars will assist students in tracing literary origins, and the ways in which they develop, whether through continuity, or else via transformation, transition or rupture. Therefore, links are frequently made between the different texts and units on the module. The constant shifting forward from a classical text to a modern example, and then back to a further classical text in another unit, draws students' attention to the complex links and fissures across our cultural traditions.
Lecturers' Research into Subject Area
LT111 is a general survey module. The twenty lectures cover a wide range of world literature and each lecturer speaks on an area related to his or her particular field of expertise: award-winning playwright Liz Kuti will be lecturing on Tragedy and Comedy; John Gillies speaks on Shakespeare; Maria Cristina Fumagalli draws on her personal interviews with Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott in her session on these two poets as modern rewriters of Dante. The module is a showcase of the Department's research specialities, which we introduce to our students at the outset of their studies with us.
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Compulsory for:
Single-honours or joint degree in Literature
Weekly 1-hour lecture and 1-hour class
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (Autumn) Plan |
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0% |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (Autumn) |
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50% |
| Practical |
Class Participation |
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10% |
| Practical |
Presentation |
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40% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Additional coursework information
Essay 2500-3000 words
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
Professor C Fumagalli
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr James Richard Procter
The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literatures
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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