World Literatures from Theory to Text
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4425 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4425
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod presents a detailed study of world literature in the twenty-first century. It explores key developments and trends in the study and theory of world literature and maps how these affect the ways in which we read contemporary literary texts from around the world (including texts from Pakistan, Morocco and the UK). The pod also has a historical focus in looking at the development of this mode of study, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Further, contemporary textual examples provide a rendering of the historical development of different global economic and political systems themselves. By exploring three different texts, the pod uses world-literature theory to track contemporary mappings of the evolution of the world-system from colonialism to the present day. This will also feed into a more pluralist definition of world-literature studies.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student participation.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, English Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature, and World Literatures. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
- Identify, discuss and analyse key strands of world-literature theory.
- Analyse contemporary literary texts within the framework of world-literature studies.
- Demonstrate critical understanding of the various contexts within which we can read world literature and within which world-literature studies establishes itself in general.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
- Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).