Level of study Third/Final year
Credit value 20
Pre-requisite modules You must have completed at least two years of appropriate study in this discipline.’
This module aims to build upon the textually focused aspects of Level C and I language modules. You will explore in detail the ways in which language patterning can highlight aspects of the meaning of texts, enabling you to complement your critical interpretation of literary texts with a secure analysis of their linguistic features. The language topics we usually explore include Cohesion, Modality, Transitivity, Collocation, and the dynamics of spoken dialogue. Recurring themes we will debate at lengthy include literariness and the possibility of a ‘literary language’, the force of ideology in literary composition, intertextuality, and the functions of irony and metaphor. We look chiefly at modern fiction, poems, and plays (in conventional and digital media); but also, for contrast, advertisements and newspapers.