Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
7103ENGLIT-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To explore how objects shape everyday life and the construction of identities;
2. To investigate how the social agency of things is negotiated in different cultural and historical contexts;
3. To understand how objects inform literature and culture.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate a sophisticated and detailed understanding of things and the methodologies that underpin the study of objects;
2.
Demonstrate a grounding in the relationship between text and object and an advanced ability to analyse cultural practices relating to objects and material culture;
3.
Show an awareness of how interdisciplinary debates within the humanities and social sciences inform questions of subjectivity and the social agency of objects.
4.
Integrate visual, written and oral information to communicate at an appropriate register for an advanced audience, and field questions relating to the task.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:This module will introduce students to object-orientated ontologies and the ‘social biography’ of things. The ‘material turn’ in literary studies has led to a renewed interest in how objects inform daily life and are of significance in works of literature. From the early modern period, where clothing maketh the man, through to the Victorian fixation with the lavish material culture of their time through to postmodernism’s hyper-realities, objects and subjects merge and are materially altered through this transaction. This module will explore the materiality of things, how subject and object become metonyms and make for fluid borders between object and subject.
Module Overview:
You will be introduced to object-orientated ontologies and the ‘social biography’ of things. The ‘material turn’ in literary studies has led to a renewed interest in how objects inform daily life and are of significance in works of literature. From the early modern period, where clothing maketh the man, through to the Victorian fixation with the lavish material culture of their time through to postmodernism’s hyper-realities, objects and subjects merge and are materially altered through this transaction. This module will explore the materiality of things, how subject and object become metonyms and make for fluid borders between object and subject.
You will be introduced to object-orientated ontologies and the ‘social biography’ of things. The ‘material turn’ in literary studies has led to a renewed interest in how objects inform daily life and are of significance in works of literature. From the early modern period, where clothing maketh the man, through to the Victorian fixation with the lavish material culture of their time through to postmodernism’s hyper-realities, objects and subjects merge and are materially altered through this transaction. This module will explore the materiality of things, how subject and object become metonyms and make for fluid borders between object and subject.