World Literature  - AHE3219

Assessment 1: Oral presentation/assessment

Pitch

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Essay

Assessment 2: Oral Assessment

Group Presentation

World Literature is a module that invites you to look beyond the “Englishness” of English Literature. Your reading list will take you on a voyage of discovery around different cultures, countries, and continents, which you will explore through their literary texts. These texts will reflect both the global reach of the English language and the enthralling experience of reading works in translation. Besides embracing the challenges posed by studying works from unfamiliar cultures and traditions, this module will consider some of the important questions raised by the study of world literature, such as the nature of hybridity, the limitations of the canon, and the globalisation of literature.

School of Arts and Humanities

This reading list is indicative only and will be updated to reflect latest scholarship and staff expertise. 

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<li>Achebe, C. (2006). Things fall apart. Penguin.</li>
<li>Junot, D. (2018). The silence. The New Yorker, 94(9), 24-24.</li>
<li>Kang, H. (2015). The Vegetarian. Granta. </li>
<li>Shafak, E. (2020). 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world. Penguin Books Ltd.</li>
<li>Vuong, O. (2019). On earth we're briefly gorgeous. Vintage Publishing.</li>
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English Literature

AHE3219 - World Literature 

World Literature 

Understand a diverse range of cultural and literary traditions as depicted through selected texts of World Literature

Be able to effectively communicate the outcomes of independent study in a range of formats

Be able to demonstrate advanced critical skills in the close reading and analysis of texts

Develop specialist knowledge of a particular text or texts

Understand the methodological, theoretical and critical challenges involved in world literature as a concept, term, and object of study.

Be able to work collaboratively on a team-based assessment