Writing and Place

Code

ENGL1011

School

English

Level

1

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring UK

Summary

This module introduces you to a range of texts, including those associated with Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, and asks you to consider how they engage with landscape, with the literary and industrial heritage of their area, and how they employ other distinctive cultural elements such as dialect. The module will allow you to reflect on recent theoretical developments in the field of literary geography, while also equipping you to read and appreciate literary works through a focus on their tangible social and historical contexts.

Target Students

Optional for all first-year SH English students. Not available to JH students or second- and final-year SH English students. Optional for all other students on a subsidiary basis.

Classes

• One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 10 weeks

Assessment

• 100% Coursework 1: 1500 words

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding of:

• A selection of literary works by regional writers (A1);
   

• Relevant theoretical approaches to the study of literary geography, space and place (A2);

• The importance of location and setting in literary works (A5).

Intellectual skills:

• Read and interpret texts using relevant theoretical and/or social contexts (B1);

• Think independently while giving due weight to the arguments of others (B2, B3).

Professional skills:

• Read and discuss a range of texts (C1);

• Carry out independent research and make appropriate use of the results (C5);

• Write accurately and present written material using conventions appropriate to literary study, including writing clearly and concisely about samples of texts (C3);

• Construct and communicate a sustained analysis.

Transferable (key) skills:

• Read closely and reflectively (D2);

• Communicate effectively in writing (D4)

Conveners

• Dr Rebecca Gregory
• Dr Sean Matthews