LT201-5-FY-CO:
Early Modern Literature
2016/17
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
30
02 July 2002
Requisites for this module
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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 QQ23 English Language and Literature,
BA QQ24 English Language and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QQ32 English Language and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QQ35 English Language and Literature (Including Placement 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 QV23 Literature and Art History,
BA QV2H Literature and Art History (Including Foundation Year),
BA QV32 Literature and Art History (Including Year Abroad)
This module is offered as an introduction to English (and European) literature of the fifteenth through to the late seventeenth centuries, laying the groundwork for more specialised study. Given the length of the period, the course will usually focus on a selection of texts, giving differential weight to particular centuries. However, one of the first tasks of the course will always be to open up discussion and debate on the usefulness or otherwise of the term 'early modern', as well as more traditional terminologies such as 'medieval' and 'Renaissance'. The course then seeks to introduce students to literature in which, at the beginnings of modernity, we can glimpse some cultural structures and behavioural forms that are prefigurations of our own. But much attention will also be paid to the considerable and exciting 'otherness' of many of the worlds represented by the chosen texts, not least in the literary forms in which they are written, many of which have passed out of usage or have been changed beyond recognition with the passage of time. The texts are therefore read in the context of profound and on-going cultural change, in an attempt to understand the place in them of such things as established court cultures and the growth of cities; trade and travel; banking and usury; war, plague, religious observances and sexual mores; as well as, in a more strictly literary context, narrative conventions, formal patterning, and the craft of poetry. Shakespeare will always feature on this course. Other writers usually present include Spenser, Donne, and Milton.
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Compulsory for:
BA English and European Literature students
Weekly lecture (one hour) and a weekly class (of one hour), plus panel discussions and revision in the summer term.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (2,000 words) |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 (4,000 words) |
|
60% |
| Practical |
Class Participation Mark |
|
10% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
Additional coursework information
Essay 1 will have 2000 words; Essay 2 will have 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 John Gillies, Dr Patricia Gillies
LiFTS General Office - 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
Of 109 hours, 105 (96.3%) hours available to students:
3 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
1 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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