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2009/10 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL5211M Culture and Identity in the Later Fourteenth Century

30 creditsClass Size: 11

Module manager: Dr Catherine Batt
Email: c.j.batt@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2009/10

Pre-requisite qualifications

As for MA programme

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will have surveyed a range of literatures (across genres and vernaculars) circulating in England in the later fourteenth century, and have a keen sense of their diversity, the challenges of assessing their pollitical importance, and the importance and difficulty of contextualizing them, in literary, as well as broader cultural, terms. They will have tested twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of the production and uses of literature, especially as regards nationalism, the authority of the vernaculars, and European cultural exchange, against particular medieval texts and contexts, and have had the opportunity to research specific issues independently.

Skills outcomes
Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity;
evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
self direction and effective decision making;
independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
to engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms

Syllabus

The module will address the following topics: Critical approaches (with reference to selections from Chaucer texts) I: biography and psychoanalysis; Critical approaches, II: new historicism and Postcolonialism; 'Canterbury Tales': insular and continental precedent; Chaucer, Boccaccio, frame tale and fabliau; Chaucer, French poetry, Boccaccio, and 'love'; Gower, vernacularity, and frame tales; Gower, authority, and patronage; Thomas Usk as a 'Chaucerian'; Usk and Chaucer as 'London' writers; Chaucer, monarchy, and 'nation': examples from 'CT' and the 'Legend of Good Women'; 'Political' Chaucer.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			278.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Reading, researching, seminar preparation, essay writing: 278 hours.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Seminar participation, including regular paper presentation. Feedback on first assessed assignment.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Written work totalling 6,000 words	75.00
In-course Assessment	translation exam	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

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Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 28/07/2010

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