English on the Move

Module overview

English has always been on the move. As a literary language, it has not only travelled from and back to England; lines of influence between texts, authors, publishers, editors, book technologies, and readers traverse the globe in multiple directions, between many places. Correspondingly, literary genres have always been mobile. They have taken shape and become significant in different ways across world cultures, and through encounters between different languages. This module gives you the opportunity to explore how ‘English’ as a literary language; as an overlapping range of imaginative genres; and as an academic discipline has always been in transit.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

the relationship of Literatures in English to other languages.
the connections and collisions between national literature and national identity.
English Literature in its global contexts.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

think and write critically about cultural production.
debate the constitution of national, regional, and world cultures.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

debate the historical and geographical lives of literary genres.
draw on literary and cultural histories when analysing individual texts.
respond creatively and knowledgeably to questions about the value and circulation of literature.
question the relationship between ‘England’ and ‘English Literature’.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, learning support hours, and individual consultations. Learning methods include independent study and group discussion. This module includes a Learning Support Hour. This is a flexible contact hour, 5 in total, designed to support and respond to the particular cohort taking the module from year to year. This hour will include (but not be limited to) activities such as language, theory and research skills classes; group work supervisions; assignment preparation and essay writing guidance; assignment consultations; feedback and feed-forward sessions.

Study time
Type	Hours
Wider reading or practice	28
Follow-up work	10
Independent Study	35
Completion of assessment task	50
Seminar	11
Lecture	11
Teaching	5
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Wars of Position. Please do not buy this book. Access to relevant chapters will be provided.

What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Please do not buy this book. Access to relevant chapters will be provided.

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. Please do not buy this book. Access to relevant chapters will be provided.

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Please do not buy this book. Access to relevant chapters will be provided.

Assessment

Assessment strategy

Two essays.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	70%
Essay	30%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	30%
Essay	70%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External