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| Unit name |
Contemporary Writing |
| Unit code |
ENGL10016 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
C/4
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Lee |
| Open unit status |
Open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Department of English |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit aims to introduce students to something of the richness and range of literature written in English in the years since 1945. It will look at fiction, poetry, and other kinds of writing where relevant. Students will be encouraged to relate their own past and present reading to the texts selected for discussion.
Aims:
- to develop an appreciation of the variety of writing in English in the years since 1945,
- to develop a sense of the general outlines of the literary history of writing in English in the years since 1945.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should:
- be familiar with a variety of landmarks in post-1945 literature in English
- have a sense of the generic and geographical variety of writing in English since 1945
- have a knowledge of the generally accepted critical history of the period
- have an understanding of some of the large literary and critical debates of the period, particularly those centred on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism.
Teaching Information
1 lecture and 1 seminar per week.
Assessment Information
- 1 sessional essay of 2,000 words
- 1 sessional essay of 4,000 words
Reading and References
- Sarah Broom, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
- Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel, 2nd ed. (London: Continuum, 2007)
- James F. English, ed., A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Blackwell, 2006)
