Approaches to Literary and Visual Culture module (HU51001)
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Credits
40
Module code
HU51001
This is a ‘state of the question’ module taught through series of discussion seminars (led by faculty who specialise in the area in question) which address key aspects of research and thinking in literary and cultural theory as well as in theory and history of visual art; focus in each seminar will be on a key concept, thinker, or movement in thought important to research in literary/aesthetic study, with various worked examples from primary literary and artistic works.
Indicative List of Topics
The Ideas of ‘Culture’ and ‘Criticism’
What is an Author?
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Historicism and New Historicism
Eco-criticism
Feminist Criticism
New Criticism / Formalism
Frankfurt School on literature
Ethical Theory and Criticism
Psychoanalytical Theory and Cultural Discourse
Intertextuality, Parody and Pastiche
Ekphrasis
Satire in Theory and Practice
Visual Culture
Theory of the Image
Modernism and Visual Culture
Theory of the Picture
Digital Theory
Theory of Photography
Abstraction
Writing Art
Assessment
100% coursework
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
the ability to employ critical and cultural approaches to written texts and visual artworks;
an advanced level of knowledge and understanding of different approaches to research in their subject areas;
the ability to identify and assess current and significant issues and debates in critical and cultural studies;
an understanding of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies;
the ability to respond to a range of social, historical and cultural representations and practices;
sufficient methodological knowledge and skill to devise and write a major piece of research involving original ideas, analysis and argument