Online critical report

Essay 4000 words

This module will enable students to explore the significance of place in literary and cultural texts of the modern period. In recent years, ideas of place have been widely contested within a range of disciplines and fields of critical enquiry. The module will draw upon this dynamic field to examine the way in which place has been articulated and re-examined across diverse forms and genres, including poetry, novels, creative non-fiction, new nature writing, film, and visual culture. Students will be introduced to advanced aesthetic, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to the study of a range of permutations of place. These may include: homes, housing and the country house; the country and the city; urban, suburban, and peri-urban places; the landscape of the everyday; littoral landscapes; the relations of the local, national and the global.

Place - 7106ENGLIT

Place

Demonstrate an advanced understanding of a multiple and complex range of places represented in literary and cultural texts;

Evidence a sophisticated grasp of current critical and theoretical debates around the contested idea of place in the contemporary world.

Demonstrate the ability to employ critical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines to explore how debates about place have been central to modern thought;