The Everyday in Contemporary Literature and Thought
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MLAC3127 | Modern Languages and Cultures | 3 | 20 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- MLAC3127
- School
- Modern Languages and Cultures
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Full Year UK
Summary
The module looks at the various ways in which the novel has evolved and adapted to the contemporary by responding to the everyday. Giving an overview of the various approaches to the everyday in the contemporary novel from the 60s to the present, this module will explore how key authors negotiate, through their writing, the everyday's indeterminacy and the unstable space it occupies between the social and the individual.
Target Students
Only available to students taking MLAC3082 French 3.
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
Classes
- One 1-hour seminar each week for 20 weeks
- One 1-hour lecture each week for 20 weeks
Assessment
- 50% Coursework 1: 1 x 2500 word essay
- 50% Coursework 2: 1 x 2500 word essay
Assessed in both autumn & spring semest
Educational Aims
Aims: To identify and examine the emergence of the “everyday” as a key element of French culture, society and politics, through the study of a variety of genres, authors and representative texts. To study how the conception and definition of the everyday has developed in the late 20th century and early 21st, to transform representations of the novel.Learning Outcomes
A. Knowledge and Understanding
- Key figures and motives of the everyday in their socio-cultural context and new trends in modern French fiction (A4)
- A sophisticated analytical grasp of the four set texts, written by key contemporary authors (A4, A5)
- Awareness of the socio-political and literary context in which these set texts were produced (A4, A5)
- Awareness of the implementation of different narrative, linguistic and structural techniques and the relation of these to thematic content (A5)
B. Intellectual Skills
- Further development of the critical analysis of primary and secondary materials (B1, B2)
- The ability to develop and communicate ideas orally and in writing and to take on board and appraise the arguments of others (B4-7)
C. Professional / practical skills
- The ability to write persuasively and accurately (C3)
- The ability to construct and communicate a sustained analysis of a written text (essay or commentary) (C4, C6)
- The ability to work independently on primary and secondary materials (C5)
- The ability to present written work in conformity with academic conventions (C6)
D. Transferable skills
- The ability to communicate effectively in writing (D1)
- The ability to prepare for and present arguments orally (D1)
- Gathering, processing and critically evaluating information and ideas from a variety of sources (D2)
- An increased capacity to carry out independent research (D4)
- Time-management skills (D7)