Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 1 x 2 hour seminar each week |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 X 2,500 WORD ESSAY | 60% |
| Semester Assessment | 30 MINUTE GROUP SUMMATIVE ORAL PRESENTATION | 40% |
| Supplementary Assessment | AN ESSAY ON A NEW TOPIC to be submitted in the event of failure in the essay assessment. | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 15 MINUTE SCRIPT ON A NEW TOPIC WITH ACCOMPANYING VISUALS, written as if for delivery, to be submitted in the event of failure in the oral presentation | 40% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate an informed critical engagement with a representative range of literary biographies, related fictions and memoirs.
Analyse the particular critical problems relating to such matters as style, narrative method and cultural significance raised by a comparative study of literary life-writing
Demonstrate how the writing of literary lives has been influenced by such cultural factors as Romanticism, Freudianism, feminism, and contemporary literary theory.
Demonstrate through oral presentation a critical understanding of the changing genre of literary biography and of how this genre has come to be creatively refracted through related biographical fictions.
Aims
This Option Module is designed to be undertaken by Year Two students. It contributes to a move to extend the use of oral assessment in the degree scheme. By providing the opportunity to study a range of literary biographies alongside related generic experiments and autobiographical reflections upon the writing of literary lives, it will enable students to develop an informed critical engagement with an important and mutating literary genre. In the second half of the Module increasing attention will be given to the cross-over of ideas between reflexive, creative experimentation in modern literary biography and associated critical and theoretical ideas.
Brief description
This Option Module is designed to be undertaken by Year Two students. It contributes to a move to extend the use of oral assessment in the degree scheme. By providing the opportunity to study a range of literary biographies alongside related generic experiments and autobiographical reflections upon the writing of literary lives, it will enable students to develop an informed critical engagement with an important and mutating literary genre. In the second half of the Module increasing attention will be given to the cross-over of ideas between reflexive, creative experimentation in modern literary biography and associated critical and theoretical ideas.
Content
This Option Module is designed to be undertaken by Year Two students. It contributes to a move to extend the use of oral assessment in the degree scheme. By providing the opportunity to study a range of literary biographies alongside related generic experiments and autobiographical reflections upon the writing of literary lives, it will enable students to develop an informed critical engagement with an important and mutating literary genre. In the second half of the Module increasing attention will be given to the cross-over of ideas between reflexive, creative experimentation in modern literary biography and associated critical and theoretical ideas.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | through group discussions and presentations |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | by developing skills to undertake independent reading and research and associated time management. |
| Information Technology | through power-point presentations |
| Personal Development and Career planning | through critical self-reflection and by developing transferable research and communication skills. |
| Problem solving | by developing evaluative analysis and critical skills and formulating and conducting a detailed argument |
| Research skills | by developing the ability to map generic changes and significant cultural markers both within and between literary texts from different historical periods |
| Subject Specific Skills | The detailed, informed critical analysis of literary texts, and the evaluation of related intellectual and theoretical concepts |
| Team work | through group presentations |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6