Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6127ENGL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To extend students’ knowledge about a wide range of non-fiction on the themes of travel, place, region and locality; 2. To develop students’ confidence in writing about and discussing their own nuanced interpretations of complex and hybrid non-fictional texts; 3. To develop effective communication of complex ideas and arguments in long-form writing.
Learning Outcomes
1.
be able to identify and articulate the significance of the geographical, historical and literary context of a chosen text;
2.
demonstrate close-reading skills which identify literary strategies and their effects in a range of non-fiction texts;
3.
apply relevant theoretical and critical perspectives.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This module explores the representation of travel and mobility, and their counterpoints stasis and sessility, in a range of non-fiction texts published from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century. It focuses on encounters with otherness and the re-assessment of the familiar, and the way in which writing about spaces and places also reveals aspects of human identity and our relation to the non-human world. Indicative texts may include: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters from a Short Residence in Sweden, Denmark and Norway (1796) Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journals (1803) Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiania (1937) Nicholas Bouvier, The Way of the World (1963) Roger Deakin, Waterlog (1999) Marc Augé, In the Métro (2002) Iain Sinclair, London Orbital (2002) W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn (1998) Amy Liptrot, The Outrun (2016) Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012)
This module explores the representation of travel and mobility, and their counterpoints stasis and sessility, in a range of non-fiction texts published from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century. It focuses on encounters with otherness and the re-assessment of the familiar, and the way in which writing about spaces and places also reveals aspects of human identity and our relation to the non-human world. Indicative texts may include: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters from a Short Residence in Sweden, Denmark and Norway (1796) Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journals (1803) Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiania (1937) Nicholas Bouvier, The Way of the World (1963) Roger Deakin, Waterlog (1999) Marc Augé, In the Métro (2002) Iain Sinclair, London Orbital (2002) W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn (1998) Amy Liptrot, The Outrun (2016) Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012)
Module Overview:
This module enhances students' understanding of non-fiction travel literature, encouraging nuanced interpretations and effective long-form writing. It explores travel narratives' reflection of encounters with otherness, reassessment of the familiar, and their link to human identity and the non-human world. Indicative texts range from Mary Wollstonecraft to Robert Macfarlane, spanning from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century.
This module enhances students' understanding of non-fiction travel literature, encouraging nuanced interpretations and effective long-form writing. It explores travel narratives' reflection of encounters with otherness, reassessment of the familiar, and their link to human identity and the non-human world. Indicative texts range from Mary Wollstonecraft to Robert Macfarlane, spanning from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century.
Additional Information:
This module explores the representation of travel and mobility, and their counterpoints stasis and sessility, in a range of non-fiction texts published from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century. It focuses on encounters with otherness and the re-assessment of the familiar, and the way in which writing about spaces and places also reveals aspects of human identity and our relation to the non-human world.
This module explores the representation of travel and mobility, and their counterpoints stasis and sessility, in a range of non-fiction texts published from the late-eighteenth to the early 21st century. It focuses on encounters with otherness and the re-assessment of the familiar, and the way in which writing about spaces and places also reveals aspects of human identity and our relation to the non-human world.