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| Honours |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Recommendation: Students should register for this module in the first year of their study towards a Bachelor of Arts Honours in English Studies if they are studying for the degree over more than one year. |
| Purpose: This module will develop and deepen students' systematic knowledge of a range of theoretical perspectives on approaching the study of literature. It will also develop their critical competence in evaluating and interrogating a variety of approaches to literature, including conceptualisations developed from African views, those developed from the global South more
broadly, and those originating from the global North. This will challenge western modernity's disposition to assign authority to a set of accepted discourses and practices that purport to be universal and form an epistemological "centre". The perspectives offered in this module will allow meanings to emerge from a plurality of centres. The skills developed will thus enable students to select between theories in order to choose those that apply best to specific literary texts in a variety of contexts. The module will also develop students' skill at applying these approaches and theories appropriately to the study of literary texts. Successful students will thus be able to contribute significantly to national epistemological and representational transformation. |