LT182-4-AU-CO:
Text Up Close: Reading for Criticism
2023/24
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 15 December 2023
15
09 May 2023
Requisites for this module
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BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA W803 Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA W808 Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
MLITQ392 Creative Writing,
BA QT37 English and United States Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA T720 English and United States Literature,
BA T723 English and United States Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA T728 English and United States Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q300 English Literature,
BA Q303 English Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q320 English Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q321 English Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA PQ32 Film Studies and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA PQ38 Film Studies and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QW26 Film Studies and Literature,
BA QW27 Film Studies and Literature (Including Placement Year),
MLITQ391 Literature,
BA QW30 Literature and Creative Writing,
BA QW31 Literature and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW33 Literature and Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA QW38 Literature and Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
MLITQ393 Literature and Creative Writing,
BA Q210 English and Comparative Literature,
BA Q211 English and Comparative Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA Q212 English and Comparative Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q218 English and Comparative Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA P530 Journalism and Literature,
BA P531 Journalism and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA P532 Journalism and Literature (Including Year Abroad)
The focus of this module is to hone and practise the foundational critical skills that will underpin the rest of your literary studies: firstly, that of analysing a text 'up-close', and in forensic detail; and secondly, using that material as evidence in an argument, which is an essential component of essay-writing, or to better comprehend and explain the construction of a given piece of writing which is crucial to any creative writer.
This module will enable you to develop your critical skills through close textual analysis. It will help you develop a critical toolkit for interpreting texts, provide you with technical vocabulary and ultimately give you invaluable expertise for the study of novels, poems, plays, films and journalism.
The aim of the module is to provide you with skills to analyse a piece of text and to offer a critical reflection on its contents.
It will encourage you to reflect consciously and critically on the processes that we all engage in every time we read a book, poem, essay or article or watch a play or a film.
By the end of this module, you will be expected to:
1. Have developed your critical skills and expanded your technical vocabulary for analysing and discussing literature
2. Have acquired and practised foundational critical skills for literary and textual study and analysis.
No additional information available.
Anticipated teaching delivery: Weekly 2-hour online 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 |
Participation |
|
5% |
| Coursework |
Formative: Close analysis of one of TWO extracts (700-1000 words) |
27/10/2023 |
0% |
| Coursework |
Essay Plan (500 - 750 words) |
17/11/2023 |
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay (1,500 words) |
19/12/2023 |
65% |
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 Elizabeth Kuti, email: ejkuti@essex.ac.uk.
Various
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr Doug Haynes
University of Sussex
Reader in American Literature and Visual Culture
Available via Moodle
Of 100 hours, 80 (80%) hours available to students:
20 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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