Text and Context (P02264)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P02264

This course responds to the growing interest in visual media, practices of looking and reading, technological mediations of language and imagery, and tensions between the visual, linguistic and the literary texts. It aims at interrogating the materiality and visibility of texts, positioning of the visible and material language signs within the theoretical and methodological approaches to studying cultures. The course examines the opposition of word and image and the notions of reading and text as privilaged conceptual toolsin theories of culture and society.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

students will have:
- a knowledge of the key approaches to studying writing and textual forms as well as historical, political, cultural contexts of writing traditions.
- understanding of the impact of technologies on writing forms and cultural practices of writing.
- ability to conduct analysis of the graphic forms of writing, technologies used in the production of forms of the written word.
- developed skills in relating theory to material manifestations of textual practices and graphic and spatial dimensions of textual artefacts.

Assessment Information

one presentation and an accompanying 1000 word report and an annotated bibliography plus a project consisting of a written compenent of 3,000 words and a visual component (visual essay) in a chosen form.