Examines recent developments within visual media and their implications for literary study.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the turn from the textual and towards the visual in contemporary critical theory and its implications for English Studies.
| Paper title | Textuality and Visuality |
|---|---|
| Paper code | ENGL334 |
| Subject | English |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2023 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $955.05 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 18 200-level ENGL points
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Notes
- Students who have not passed the normal prerequisite may be admitted with approval from the Head of Department.
- Contact
- rochelle.simmons@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
View more information on the English and Linguistics Programme website
- Teaching staff
- Convenor and Lecturer: Dr Rochelle Simmons
- Textbooks
An ENGL 334 Course Reader will be available from UniPrint. Make sure that you either own, or have access to, the following:
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (Paladin).
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing (Penguin).
Auster, Paul. City of Glass (Penguin).
Karasik, Paul, David Mazzucchelli, and Paul Auster. City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (Picador).
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling (Pantheon).
DeLillo, Don. White Noise (Viking) 1995.
Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient (McClelland & Stewart) 1992.
Pear, Iain. Arcadia (Random House) 2015.- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural
understanding, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
- Discuss the relationship between notions of textuality and visuality
- Examine inter-art analogies drawn from a variety of media
- Analyse a range of literary and visual texts from historical, theoretical, critical and comparative perspectives
- Develop methodological and scholarly tools appropriate for literary and visual analysis
