English and drama
Serial Fictions
Module code: Q3901
Level 6
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Workshop, Seminar
Assessment modes: Portfolio
In this module, we read one or two serial texts from the 19th century through to the 21st century, analysing seriality’s impact on fiction, time, and history. Weekly workshops encourage both creative and critical responses.
Module learning outcomes
- Analyse module texts in relation to their serial forms.
- Undertake primary research into the cultural and/or material contexts of our module texts.
- Understand and evaluate key scholarly texts on seriality, serialisation and/or other aspects of the module texts.
- Reflect on our shared experience of serial reading within the module.
- Identify research topics for assessment, and produce a portfolio of writing.
- Write critically and/or creatively in response to literary historical research and to innovative literary forms from the past; consider how one鈥檚 own writing responds to the work of previous writers and/or critics.