EGH610 Literary Language (History and Culture) (30 credits)

Year Running: 2019/2020

Credit level: F7

Additional Information

This module is primarily intended for students on the MA in English Language and Literature, although students on other MAs in the School of English may take it if they have an appropriate background in literary linguistics.

Description

This module focuses upon the investigation of literary language with reference to its historical and cultural contexts. It provides opportunities to explore the ways in which literary style was conceptualised in earlier periods of history (in Renaissance rhetoric, for example) and to consider contemporary debates about the politics of literary language (among postcolonial writers, for example). Throughout the module, we shall focus on the relationship between ideas about literary style, as they are expressed in critical, theoretical, or pedagogical texts, and literary practice as it is revealed through the stylistic analysis of prose, poetry, and drama.

Reading List

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Teaching Methods

Delivery Type	Hours
Independent	270.0
Lecture	30.0

Methods of assessment

Assessment Type	Duration	% of formal assessment	Semester
Course Work	0.0	100 %	S1

Teaching methods and assessment displayed on this page are indicative for 2019-20.