LT204-5-FY-CO:
Approaches to Text
2017/18
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 05 October 2017
Friday 29 June 2018
30
02 July 2002
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),
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 PW38 Film and Creative Writing,
BA PW39 Film and Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA PW88 Film and Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
BA PWH8 Film and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA P303 Film Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA W620 Film Studies,
BA W623 Film Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA W628 Film Studies (Including Foundation Year),
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),
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),
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)
Approaches to Text is a module intended to make students familiar with a diversity of ways in which literary, theatre, and film texts may be read and interpreted. By introducing students to key concepts – such as e.g. ideology, the unconscious, gender, creolisation, the transnational, and the post-human – the module seeks to provide a theoretical and methodological basis for the study of cultural texts. It introduces the thinkers and thinking behind such key concepts and explores how particular theories can help us to analyse works of literature, drama, and film in novel and unexpected ways.
Module Supervisor's Research into Subject Area
Literary Theory is a major area of Professor Littau's research. She has published a book on Theories of Reading (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006) and a range of articles and book chapters on deconstruction and feminist theories.
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Compulsory for:
Single-honours BA scheme in Literature
Classes: please check timetable for which class you are to attend and for room numbers, online at:
Please check at the end of Autumn Term which rooms we have been allocated for the Spring Term.
Learning and Teaching
Weekly 1 hour lecture, followed by a weekly 1 hour class. Students must set aside approximately 6-8 hours each week for preparing the requisite reading.
- Iser, Wolfgang. (c1980) The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. vol. John Hopkins paperback
- Thomas, Julia. (2008) Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader, London: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Baudrillard, Jean. (2003) The spirit of terrorism: and, Other essays, London: Verso.
- Barthes, Roland. (2009) Myth today, London: Vintage. vol. Vintage Classics
- Taylor, Neil. (2006) Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare.
- Buell, Lawrence. (2005) The future of environmental criticism: environmental crisis and literary imagination, Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
- Said, Edward W. (1995) Orientalism, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Cixous, Helene. (2009) Laugh of the Medusa, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
- Said, Edward W. (1993) Jane Austen and Empire, London: Chatto and Windus.
- Byron. (1980-1986) Darkness, Oxford: Clarendon Press. vol. Oxford English texts
- Macfarlane, Robert. (2008) Dawn beach, London: Granta.
- Poster, Mark. (2001) Jean Baudrillard: selected writings, Cambridge: Polity.
- Taylor, Neil. (2006) Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare. vol. The Arden Shakespeare. Third series
- Brecht, Bertolt. (c1964) The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre, London: Methuen.
- Freud, Sigmund. (1976, reprinted 1982) The Material and Sources of Dreams, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- Barthes, Roland. (1977) The death of the author, London: Fontana.
- Bentley, Eric. (2007) The Caucasian chalk circle, London: Penguin. vol. Modern classics
- De Landa, Manuel. (2011) Introduction to War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Abingdon: Routledge.
- Wake, Paul. (2013) The Routledge companion to critical and cultural theory, Abingdon: Routledge.
- Singer, Peter. (2006) In defense of animals: the second wave, Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
- De Landa, Manuel. (1991) War in the age of intelligent machines, New York: Zone Books. vol. Swerve eds
- Cox, Christopher. (2015) Possibility spaces: Sternberg Press.
- Keats, John. (1900-1901) To Autumn, Glasgow: Gowans & Gray. vol. The complete library
- Lacan, Jacques. (c2006) Ecrit, New York: W.W. Norton.
- Haraway, Donna. (2004) A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s, New York: Routledge.
- Harris, Wilson. (2006) The limbo gateway, London: Routledge.
- Bate, Jonathan. (2000) The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem, London: Routledge.
- Iser, Wolfgang. (1972) The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach. vol. 3
- Benjamin, Walter. (1998) What is epic theatre?, London: Verso.
- Freud, Sigmund. (1976, reprinted 1982) The Dream-Work, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- Freud, Sigmund. (2002) Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes, Malden, Mass: Blackwell. vol. Keyworks in cultural studies
- Coupe, Laurence. (2000) The green studies reader: from Romanticism to ecocriticism, London: Routledge.
- To Autumn, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/to-autumn
- Parshley, H. M. (1997) The second sex, London: Vintage.
- Underwood, J. A. (2008) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, London: Penguin.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course. The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students. Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (2,000 words) |
|
45% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 (2,500 words) |
|
45% |
| Practical |
Class Participation Mark |
|
10% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
Additional coursework information
Essay 1 will have 2000 words; Essay 2 will have 2,500 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
Dr Katherine Armond, email: k.armond@essex.ac.uk.
Prof Karin Littau, email: klittau@essex.ac.uk.
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LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Prof Duncan James Salkeld
University of Chichester
Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
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Of 133 hours, 131 (98.5%) hours available to students:
1 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
1 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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