Module Descriptors
THINKING WITH WORDS AND NARRATIVES LEVEL 5
PHIL50139
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Hugh Burnham
Email: H.D.Burnham@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 50%
- COURSEWORK - SECOND ESSAY weighted at 50%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
A short textual analysis essay 1200 words [Learning Outcome 3]
A discussion essay that concerns a particular theoretical or methodological problem 1200 words. [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3]
A discussion essay that concerns a particular theoretical or methodological problem 1200 words. [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3]
Module Indicative Content
This module will choose as its content a series of literary texts and philosophical approaches to literary texts. The choice will be guided by genre: e.g. tragedy. So, for example, the programme could be:
Sophocles Oedipus Rex.
Aristotle Poetics
Shakespeare Macbeth
Nietzsche The Birth and Death of Tragedy.
For each series of literary texts, the module will contextualise in terms of genre, obvious social/ political or religious themes, and so forth. It will then seek to investigate literary texts as exhibiting a definite form of cognition. For the philosophical texts, the module will critically examine them as possible models for thinking the possibilities of literary or narrative cognition.
Sophocles Oedipus Rex.
Aristotle Poetics
Shakespeare Macbeth
Nietzsche The Birth and Death of Tragedy.
For each series of literary texts, the module will contextualise in terms of genre, obvious social/ political or religious themes, and so forth. It will then seek to investigate literary texts as exhibiting a definite form of cognition. For the philosophical texts, the module will critically examine them as possible models for thinking the possibilities of literary or narrative cognition.
Module Learning Strategies
Contact time will be divided into lectures and seminars. The lectures will be responsible for contextualising themes, describing models and exhibiting good analytical practice. The seminars will be for clarification, and for students to pursue and practice analysis.
Module Texts
Aristotle, Poetics. Trans., R. Janko. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991)
Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. (Penguin: 2000)
Shakespeare, King Lear. (Penguin: 1993)
Shakespeare, Macbeth. (Penguin, 1995).
Sophocles, Three Theban Plays. Trans. Fagles. (Penguin, 1984)
Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. (Penguin: 2000)
Shakespeare, King Lear. (Penguin: 1993)
Shakespeare, Macbeth. (Penguin, 1995).
Sophocles, Three Theban Plays. Trans. Fagles. (Penguin, 1984)
Module Resources
Library, IT facilities