SEL8536 : Literary Geographies (Inactive)
- Inactive for Year: 2024/25
- Module Leader(s): Dr Chloe Ashbridge
- Lecturer: Professor James Procter, Professor Neelam Srivastava
- Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 20 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
| European Credit Transfer System | |
Aims
This module explores how authors and texts articulate their relationship to shifting geographies of cultural power, literary canon formation, and readership. How has literary production and consumption been shaped by ideas of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, ‘metropole’ and ‘margins’? Has globalization displaced or consolidated what Casanova calls the ‘Greenwich Meantime of Literature’? By pursuing a range of texts that move between cultural centres and peripheries, students will be encouraged to grapple with literary texts as sites of territorialisation, movement and disorientation in order to think about the critical questions of value and canonicity. The focus will be on material from the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, depending on the research specialisms of teaching staff.
Outline Of Syllabus
For details of primary texts please refer to the module guide for the current academic year.
Indicative background reading might include:
Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters (2004)
Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees (2007)
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 60:00 | 60:00 | N/A |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 11 | 2:00 | 22:00 | N/A |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 118:00 | 118:00 | N/A |
| Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Extended seminar discussion allows for sustained group work and critical analysis which are crucial to this module's exploratory and interrogative approach to the learning outcomes.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 1 | A | 100 | 4,000 word essay |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Assessment by 4,000-word essay encourages students to pursue the intricacies of the topics/ texts investigated on the module, and to develop arguments and forms of independent critical thinking appropriate at MA level.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- SEL8536's Timetable