This module explores the range of interrelations and negotiations that take place between verbal and visual culture, in literature, art, film, philosophy and, psychogeography. It will cover a diverse range of thinkers and approaches such as; Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bersani, Derrida, Debord, and Marx. The module is intended to be interdisciplinary and it will include some Paris-based visits, activities and screenings as a necessary means of working across themes, theories and ideas. It will consider some or all of the following themes, such as: the politics of space, ekphrasis and the other, phenomenological wonder, the legacy of Marx, and Marxist and formalist perspectives on modernism and the visual arts.
Total Contact Hours: 20
Private Study Hours: 280
Total Study Hours: 300
Autumn or Spring
Main assessment methods
Assignment (5,000 words) – 100%
Reassessment methods
Like-for-like
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See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the range of literary and philosophical approaches to understanding the relationship between the verbal and visual culture;
2 Demonstrate knowledge of how Paris and Parisian social, cultural and national contexts contribute to debates concerning aesthetics, philosophy, and literary history;
3 Demonstrate knowledge of current scholarship in the cultural history of the modern metropolis (specifically Paris);
4 Demonstrate a broad sense of how and where disciplines meet, ideologically.
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current topical issues at the forefront of their academic discipline, field of study, or area of professional practice;
2 Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
3 Demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline;
4 Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables them to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline;
5 Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables them to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses.
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