Contextual Analysis

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 75

Adaptation Proposal

1 - Project output (other than dissertation) - 25

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This module will introduce you to historicist literary scholarship, and a range of works drawn from a rich period of literary history. You will learn by engaging with literature in many forms and you will be encouraged throughout to interrogate texts critically. Indicative content may include but is not limited to:  
<ul><li>Early English literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Middle English Literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Early Modern Literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Characteristic forms, genres and literary techniques </li></ul>
<ul><li>Characteristic themes </li></ul>
<ul><li>Important historical, cultural and social contexts </li></ul>
<ul><li>The literary canon and challenges to it   </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625

The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction

The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre

Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600

Practicing New Historicism

Medieval English Literature 1100-1500

The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution 

The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature

EN1010 - Controversy and Conflict: Literature in Historical Context from the Middle Ages to 1660

EN1010-PRD1-PER-ALV1

This module will be delivered through a range of teaching and learning activities, including lectures, seminars and guided independent study. Lectures will introduce you to relevant literary, historical and cultural contexts and concepts. Seminars will provide opportunities for applying and articulating your knowledge. Your learning will be supported by study materials on the Virtual Learning Environment.

Controversy and Conflict: Literature in Historical Context from the Middle Ages to 1660

Demonstrate self-motivation, commitment and initiative. 

Values and attitudes

Demonstrate curiosity, an enquiring attitude and willingness to explore the applications of your learning in academic contexts. 

Collate and present ideas and information in a range of academic formats. 

Skills

Develop the capacity to identify and question your own assumptions. 

Analyse and evaluate a range of texts in their contexts. 

Explain and describe how texts and contexts inform one another. 

Knowledge

Identify literary forms, styles, tropes and themes characteristic of English written between the Middle Ages and the Civil War period. 