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    Overview

    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.

    About this paper

    Paper title Textuality and Visuality
    Subject English
    EFTS 0.15
    Points 18 points
    Teaching period Not offered in 2024 (On campus)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $981.75
    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

    english@otago.ac.nz

    Teaching staff

    To be confirmed

    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.
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    Learning Outcomes

    Students who successfully complete this paper will:

    1. Discuss the relationship between notions of textuality and visuality
    2. Examine inter-art analogies drawn from a variety of media
    3. Analyse a range of literary and visual texts from historical, theoretical, critical and comparative perspectives
    4. Develop methodological and scholarly tools appropriate for literary and visual analysis

    Timetable

    Not offered in 2024

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught On Campus
    Learning management system
    Blackboard
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