This module explores the range of interrelations and negotiations that take place between verbal and visual culture, in literature, art, film and philosophy. It will cover a diverse range of philosophers such as Walter Benjamin Henri Lefebvre; artists such as Paul Cézanne, and Walton Ford; prose writers such as Virginia Woolf and John Berger; and film makers such as Wim Wenders and Mathieu Kassovitz. The module is intended to be interdisciplinary and considers some or all of the following topics: perception and embodiment, experience and expression; racial and differential space; contemporary artists' books; the significance of storytelling in the 20th and 21st century; colonial and postcolonial animalities; philosophies of history.
Private Study: 278
Contact Hours: 22
Total: 300
Main assessment methods
Critical or creative-critical assignment (5,000 words) – 100%
Reassessment methods:
Like-for-like
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The intended subject specific learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the range of literary and philosophical approaches to understanding the relationship between the verbal and visual culture;
2 Demonstrate knowledge of social, cultural and national contexts contribute to debates concerning aesthetics, philosophy, and literary history in the 20th and 21st century;
3 Demonstrate knowledge of current scholarship in the studied fields of verbal and visual culture.
4 Demonstrate a broad sense of how and where disciplines meet, ideologically.
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current topical issues at the forefront of their academic discipline, field of study, or area of professional practice;
2 Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
3 Demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline;
4 Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables them to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline;
5 Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables them to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses.
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