ENG6202 - When Elizabeth Bennet met Bridget Jones

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

Demonstrate a critical knowledge and understanding of the practice and techniques of intertextuality.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of theoretical debates about intertextuality and its relation to originality and identity.

Produce close textual analyses that demonstrate critical appreciation of the function of intertextuality within selected material.

Present findings clearly and persuasively, using appropriate methods and communications technologies.

Content:

This module introduces students to the theory and practice of intertextuality. It will give them a critical vocabulary for describing relationships between texts by covering terms such as parody, pastiche, allusion, and homage.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The module aims to engage student interest by exploring key examples of intertextual practice in order to work through the key theories, practices, and implications that apply. The sessions will then work through a chain of texts and are allusive and which in turn provide sources for others. An indicative set of texts would be: Austen's Northanger Abbey, Shakespeare's As You Like It, Woolf's Night and Day, Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. In addition to making intertextual readings of these works, students will be introduced to a selection of key theoretical readings and be encouraged to relate these ideas to their readings of the texts. Students will be encouraged to seek out allusions for themselves through independent Moodle-based exercises, such as making searches in e-texts and using the OED Online.

Seminars
Hours: 24
Intended Group Size: 25

Guided independent study
Hours:176

Further details relating to assessment

Assessment 1 - take away paper: for this exercise, students will produce close textual analyses that demonstrate critical appreciation of the function of intertextuality within selected texts.

Assessment 2 - negotiated assessment format: students will demonstrate the ability to construct an argument that engages with theoretical debates about intertextuality and draws on close textual analyses of selected texts.

Assessment:

001 Take-away Paper; 1,500 word equivalent; Mid-Semester One 30%
002 Essay; 2,500 word equivalent; End of Semester One 70%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Dr Jane De Gay
Level - 6
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S1

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