ENG4683 - Stylistics

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Students will explore how linguistic theory and terms can be used in the analysis of literary texts. They will begin by developing an understanding of theory behind stylistics. They will then explore the fundamental concepts of deviation and parallelism. They will go on to examine stylistic effects in poems, prose and plays. Thus, the module is likely to include metre and rhythm, sound patterns, the representation of speech and thought, transitivity, point of view, and the uses of pragmatics in the analysis of drama. Students will apply this knowledge through analysing stylistic features including a creative piece of their own.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars
Hours: 50
Intended Group Size: 15

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Students submit two 800-word pieces of stylistic analysis in Semester 1, both from texts provided. The first permits early assessment (see statement below).

Students submit a 2000-word piece at mid-Semester 2 in which they compose and comment upon their own piece of creative writing.

A 2,000-word essay is submitted at the end of Semester 2. For this students choose topics in stylistics and select their own texts for analysis.

Early Assessment: there will be assessment in all four Level 4 modules in the programme between five and eight weeks after Intro Week.

Formal assessment will be preceded in each module in the first 4 weeks by some formative exercises (eg practice analysis, referencing exercise, brief report on a research task) and an ‘assessment unpacking’ session.

Assessment:

001 Stylistic analysis; 800 words; mid-semester 1 20%
002 Stylistic analysis; 800 words; end of semester 1 20%
003 Creative writing & commentary; 2,000 words; mid-semester 2 30%
004 Stylistics essay; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 30%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - ROD HERMESTON
Level - 4
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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