Essay [Outcomes 1, 2, 4] 80% 2000 words

Presentation: a poster presentation and spoken commentary relating to one of the texts studied.
[Outcomes 4,5] 20%

The module will introduce students to the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a foundational period for any degree programme in English literature. Students will analyse representative texts from the principal genres of poetry, drama and prose, in relation to genre, style and form, and the external influences of the broader culture and society. Study texts may include the following: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice; Sonnets; the metaphysical poetry of Donne and Marvell; Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. The module workshops will develop the core skills of textual analysis and interpretation in the light of historical and contextual awareness, in keeping with the broader pedagogical aims of the Level 4 English programme.

Contact hours will be taken up with weekly Workshops, combining short lectures, exercises, presentations and discussion.

OHP
VCR
Library
Internet

Michael Hattaway, Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005)
Julia Briggs, This Stage-Play World (1997)

1 AN ABILITY TO READ ANALYTICALLY A RANGE OF EARLY MODERN TEXTS ACROSS KEY LITERARY GENRES.
Knowledge & Understanding

2 AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL CONTEXT IN SHAPING THE MEANING OF LITERARY TEXTS.
Analysis
Learning

3 AN ABILITY TO STRUCTURE A COHERENT ANALYTICAL ARGUMENT IN DRAFT FORM.
Communication

4 AN ABILITY TO PRESENT CRITICAL ARGUMENT AND ANALYSIS IN ORAL AND VISUAL FORMATS.
Application

5 AN ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE FLEXIBLY AND CREATIVELY IN A PROJECT.
Reflection