Glossary of Terms

Year 1 (90 Credits)

RequiredLLC6100: Graduate Research Skills in Languages and Cultures

LLC6100: Graduate Research Skills in Languages and Cultures

Semester 1 and Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module has been designed to offer graduate students in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures structured guidance and support in the writing of a minor dissertation. The module provides an overview of different research trends and methods within the broader area of languages literatures and cultures, giving students the tools to evaluate existing research and apply these findings in their own academic work. Through a mixture of workshops, general discussions and one-to-one meetings, this module will familiarise students with the main stages of the dissertation process, i.e., identifying a research gap; selecting a topic; writing their dissertation and preparing for their Viva.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate knowledge of different research methods within their area of study, assessing the opportunities and drawbacks presented by them and applying them to the analysis of multimodal texts.
2. Design an effective research proposal.
3. Use evidence and scholarly sources to support academic arguments and to produce a coherent literature review, after conducting bibliographical research on a specific topic area.
4. Present their research project effectively.
5. Recognise the fundamentals of research ethics and integrity.

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  MARIA DEL PILAR ALDERETE-DIEZ 🖂
  
•  KATHLEEN QUINN 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  
•  Tamara De Ines Anton 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "The Map: A Beginners' Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies" by Jenny Williams and Andrew Chesterman
   ISBN: 1-317-64240-6.
   Publisher: Routledge
2. "Research Methodologies in Translation Studies" by Gabriela Saldanha and Sharon O'Brien
   ISBN: 9781909485006.
   Publisher: Routledge
3. "Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies" by Mellinger, Christopher D. and Thomas A. Hanson
4. "Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies" by Dolmaya, Julie McDonough
   Publisher: Routledge
5. "Routledge Handbook of Translation and Methodology" by Federico Zanettin and Christopher Rundle
6. "Writing a Translation Commentary" by Penelope Johnson
   Publisher: Routledge
7. "How to Write a Better Minor Thesis" by Paul Gruba and Justin Zobel
   ISBN: 9780522866094.
   Publisher: Melbourne University
8. "A Practical Guide to Dissertation and Thesis Writing" by Mark Stephan Felix and Ian Smith
   ISBN: 9781527536814.
   Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
9. "Introduction to Literary Analysis: A Complete Methodology" by Louis Hébert
   Publisher: Routledge
10. "The Researcher's Toolkit:The Complete Guide to Practitioner Research" by David Wilkinson and Dennis Dokter
    Publisher: Routledge

RequiredMIC502: Dissertation

MIC502: Dissertation

15 months long | Credits: 30

Assessments

• Research (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  

RequiredMIC504: The Art of Reading

MIC504: The Art of Reading

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

This module explores reading strategies and multiple dimensions of textuality in relation to literature, visual arts, games, as well as what we perceive as “nature”. Special focus is given to reflection on SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 15 (Life on Land).
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will develop methods and strategies to discuss texts in relation to their aesthetic qualities and their dominant and marginalised narratives
2. students will reflect on their own role in the reading process

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  CATHERINE EMERSON 🖂
  
•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  MARION KRAUTHAKER 🖂
  
•  RIÓNA NÍ FHRIGHIL 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  
•  Rachel Robinson 🖂
  

OptionalFR6101: Language, Gender and Power

FR6101: Language, Gender and Power

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

Over the last number of decades, there has been a strong interest in the relationship between language, gender and power both as an academic and a popular topic. This module provides students firstly with an understanding of how language as a social entity intersects with gender and sexuality, and subsequently how power can be disseminated through language. It addresses the use of language to categorise the gender/ sexuality world and to create and display gender/sexual identities. It includes discussions on the constructions and representations of femininity/masculinity, non-binary gender identities, sexual violence, sexual harassment and motherhood/ fatherhood in a range of discourse types. Students explore a selection of texts and examples from a variety of sources including print media, advertising, health promotion and internet media and are introduced to key theoretical frameworks for the analysis of language, gender and power including traditional sociolinguistic approaches, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Think critically about the relationship between language, gender and sexuality
2. Reflect on how power relations can be disseminated through language
3. Apply the different theoretical and methodological frameworks used for the analysis of language, gender and power in a range of different contexts
4. Engage in the process of investigation of language, gender and power related issues through their own selection and analysis of texts

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  ORNAITH RODGERS 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Language and Gender" by Penelope Eckert,Sally McConnell-Ginet
   ISBN: 9781107029057.
   Publisher: Cambridge University Press
2. "Language, Society and Power" by Annabelle Mooney,Betsy Evans
   ISBN: 9780415786249.
   Publisher: Routledge
3. "Language and Gender" by Mary Talbot
   ISBN: 9781509530090.
   Publisher: Polity
4. "Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality" by Helen Sauntson
   ISBN: 9781138637368.
   Publisher: Routledge

OptionalFM521: Critical Theory I

FM521: Critical Theory I

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

This course aims to provide a critical understanding of the ways in which theories of film have been formulated and applied, relating these theories to their historical and cultural context, and testing out their application to specific texts.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate a specific and comparative knowledge of various theoretical approaches to cinema;
2. Analyse specific texts in structural, formal and historical terms;
3. Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of film aesthetics and film cultures;
4. Work in flexible, creative and independent ways, showing self-direction, self-discipline and reflexivity;
5. Demonstrate skills in written, oral and visual communications.

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  SEÁN CROSSON 🖂
  
•  CONN HOLOHAN 🖂
  
•  Teresa O'Donovan 🖂
  
•  MAIREAD CASEY 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Film art" by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson
   ISBN: 0070064393.
   Publisher: McGraw-Hill
2. "Film theory and criticism" by edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen
   ISBN: 0195365623.
   Publisher: Oxford University Press
3. "Readings and writings" by Peter Wollen
   ISBN: 0860910555.
   Publisher: Verso
4. "Hitchcock's films revisited" by Robin Wood
   ISBN: 0231126956.
   Publisher: Columbia University Press
5. "Image, music, text" by Roland Barthes; essays selected and translated [from the French] by Stephen Heath
   ISBN: 0006861350.
   Publisher: Fontana
6. "Movies and methods" by edited by Bill Nichols
   ISBN: 0520031512.
   Publisher: University of California Press
7. "Audio-vision" by Michel Chion; edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman; with a foreword by Walter Murch
   ISBN: 0231078986.
   Publisher: Columbia University Press

OptionalSH6103: Translation Theory and Practice

SH6103: Translation Theory and Practice

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

This module offers an overview of the development of Translation Studies as a discipline, examining a number of key theoretical issues. Emphasis will be placed on the significance of extra-linguistic factors that affect the process of translation, such as culture, power, gender, politics, or ethics. Students will also gain some practical experience in text analysis and translation research methods.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Map in broad terms the development of the field of Translation Studies up to the present-day.
2. Discuss and evaluate various theoretical approaches to the study of translation, and their relative merits and drawbacks, by giving particular consideration to their relevance for professional translators.
3. Develop an appropriate translation strategy based on their analysis of a source text and translation commission.
4. Analyse translations critically, making effective use of current scholarship in the discipline.
5. Demonstrate advanced academic writing and presentation skills.

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  MARY ANN MANNION 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Introducing Translation Studies" by Jeremy Munday et al.
   ISBN: 9780367370510.
   Publisher: Routledge
2. "The Translation Studies Reader" by Lawrence Venuti
   ISBN: 9780367235970.
   Publisher: Routledge
3. "Critical Readings in Translation Studies" by Mona Baker
   ISBN: 9780415469555.
   Publisher: Routledge
4. "The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts" by Reine Meylaerts and Kobus Marais
   ISBN: 9780367752002.
   Publisher: Routledge
5. "The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies" by Carmen Millan-Varela and Francesca Bartrina
   ISBN: 9781138211469.
   Publisher: Routledge
6. "Translation Tools and Technologies" by Andrew Rothwell et al.
   ISBN: 9780367750329.
   Publisher: Routledge

OptionalMIC6102: Contemporary Women's Voices from Latin America and Equatorial Guinea

MIC6102: Contemporary Women's Voices from Latin America and Equatorial Guinea

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

Contemporary women's writing from Latin America and Spanish-speaking Africa has won a global readership for its formal experimentation and its engagement with crucial issues of gender violence, femicide, LGBTQ+ rights, and motherhood and reproductive justice. This module studies works by key authors, looking at texts and their contexts, and considering issues of translatability in their journey to become 'world literature'. The module underscores the need to analyse gendered violence as embedded in intersecting structures of racism, colonialism and neoliberal extractivism. Authors studied may include: Melibea Obono, La Bastarda (Equatorial Guinea), Selva Almada, Dead Girls (Argentina), Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer (Mexico), Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows (Argentina), Laura Restrepo, The Divine Boys (Colombia), Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream (Argentina), Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark (Bolivia).
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Critique how texts engage with issues of gender and sexual equality.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which the texts were produced.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of theories of gender violence.
4. Present independent research orally and in writing on the works studied.
5. Explain and discuss genre and form of the texts studied.

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  KATHLEEN QUINN 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  
•  Tamara De Ines Anton 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "La Bastarda" by Melibea Obono
2. "Dead Girls" by Selva Almada
3. "Liliana's Invincible Summer" by Cristina Rivera Garza
4. "Elena Knows" by Claudia Piñeiro
5. "The Divine Boys" by Laura Restrepo
6. "Fever Dream" by Samanta Schweblin

OptionalMIC504: The Art of Reading

MIC504: The Art of Reading

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

This module explores reading strategies and multiple dimensions of textuality in relation to literature, visual arts, games, as well as what we perceive as “nature”. Special focus is given to reflection on SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 15 (Life on Land).
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will develop methods and strategies to discuss texts in relation to their aesthetic qualities and their dominant and marginalised narratives
2. students will reflect on their own role in the reading process

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  CATHERINE EMERSON 🖂
  
•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  MARION KRAUTHAKER 🖂
  
•  RIÓNA NÍ FHRIGHIL 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  
•  Rachel Robinson 🖂
  

OptionalMIC6101: Worlds of Fantasy: Literature, Film, Computer Games

MIC6101: Worlds of Fantasy: Literature, Film, Computer Games

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

Postapocalyptic or Utopian Computer Games, Fantasy novels and films are currently extremely popular. They invent imaginary worlds that may have a lot in common with the “real” world, or may strongly differ from it. The alternative worlds or futures presented by these media serve different purposes: They may simply be offers to escape from the troubles in the “real” world, or they may have a dystopian character and criticise social or political problems. Fantasy fiction often invites psychological interpretations. The module introduces the theory of fantasy fiction and analyses exemplary novels and films with different cultural backgrounds. It will also engage with selected computer games and the specific features of this interactive medium.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Critique selected fantasy texts, films and computer games
2. Demonstrate knowledge of theories of fantasy fiction
3. Explain and discuss specific aesthetical features of fantasy literature and film
4. Analyse the difference between traditional and interactive media with regard to fantasy fiction

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre." by Tzvetan Todorov
2. "Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader" by David Sandner (ed.)
3. "Selected short stories" by Jorge Luis Borges
4. "Last World" by Christoph Ransmayr
5. "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami

OptionalFM6117: Sport and Film

FM6117: Sport and Film

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module will provide students with an overview of the major developments in the depiction of sport in film. Considering fiction, documentary, and newsreels, the module will explore the diverse ways different cultures have depicted sport in film.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the key themes evident in the depiction of sport in film internationally.
2. Recognise the diverse approaches to depicting sport in film.
3. Evaluate the role sports cinema has played in particular societies.
4. Identify the distinctive forms and their attributes (fiction, documentary, newsreels) that have been employed in the depiction of sport.
5. Conduct original research and analyse and write up findings.
6. Develop and demonstrate skills in written, oral and visual communications.

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  SEÁN CROSSON 🖂
  
•  DEIRDRE QUINN 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Sport and Film" by Seán Crosson
   ISBN: 978-04155699.
   Publisher: Routledge
2. "The Sports Film: Games People Play" by Bruce Babington
   ISBN: 9780231169653.
   Publisher: Columbia University Press
3. "Visual Economies Of/in Motion: Sport and Film" by C. Richard King,David J. Leonard
   ISBN: 9780820478524.
   Publisher: Peter Lang

OptionalIT6105: Narratives of Migration in the Mediterranean

IT6105: Narratives of Migration in the Mediterranean

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module explores narratives of migration in and around the Mediterranean as cultural, ecological and more-than-human phenomena. Moving beyond crisis-driven and human-centred accounts, students will examine how literary texts, films, visual cultures and testimonies narrate mobility across intertwined human, environmental and material histories. Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental humanities, postcolonial studies and migration studies, the module situates Mediterranean migration within longer temporalities of colonialism, climate change, multispecies movement and material circulation. Delivered in hybrid format with contributions from partner institutions, the module encourages students to engage critically and creatively with migration narratives, experimenting with storytelling as both an analytical method and an ethical practice.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse literary, filmic and cultural narratives of migration in the Mediterranean using frameworks from migration studies, ecocriticism and environmental humanities.
2. Contextualise migration narratives within broader historical, colonial, ecological and geopolitical processes shaping the Mediterranean region.
3. Evaluate non-human and multispecies perspectives in representations of mobility, including animals, landscapes, infrastructures and materials.
4. Apply interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migration, integrating cultural analysis with environmental and ethical considerations.
5. Produce original critical and/or creative work that reflects an informed, reflexive engagement with migration narratives and methodologies.
6. Communicate complex ideas effectively to academic and non-academic audiences through written, visual or multimodal formats.

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  Bianca Cataldi 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetic of Subversions" by Federica Mazzara
   Publisher: Oxford & New York: Peter Lang

OptionalDJ6161: Platforms, Power and Media Governance

DJ6161: Platforms, Power and Media Governance

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module examines how digital platforms have reshaped the organisation of media, the circulation of information, and the exercise of power in contemporary societies. It focuses on the political economy and governance of platforms, including ownership structures, data extraction, algorithmic distribution, and content moderation. Students will analyse how states and supranational actors (including the EU) are responding through regulatory frameworks such as the Digital Services Act and the European Media Freedom Act. The module interrogates the tensions between market logics, public communication, and democratic accountability, and asks what forms of governance are required to sustain a plural and trustworthy public sphere.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the political economy of digital platforms, including ownership structures, data extraction, and revenue models.
2. Assess the implications of platform power for media pluralism, journalism, and democratic communication.
3. Evaluate how algorithms and content moderation systems shape visibility, access to information, and public discourse.
4. Interpret and critique emerging regulatory frameworks (e.g. DSA, EMFA, AI Act) and their effectiveness in addressing platform accountability and public interest obligations.
5. Apply theoretical and policy frameworks to contemporary cases to produce evidence-based arguments in written and oral formats.

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  KAREN M WALSH 🖂
  
•  TOM FELLE 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Custodians of the Internet" by Tarleton Gillespie
   ISBN: 9780300173130.
   Publisher: Yale University Press
2. "Digital Platform Regulation" by Terry Flew,Fiona R. Martin
   ISBN: 9783030952198.
   Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
3. "Social Media and the Public Interest" by Philip M. Napoli
   ISBN: 9780231184540.
4. "The Costs of Connection" by Nick Couldry,Ulises A. Mejias
   ISBN: 9781503609754.
   Publisher: Stanford University Press
5. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff
   ISBN: 9781781256859.

OptionalIT6103: Language for Environmental Futures II

IT6103: Language for Environmental Futures II

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This programme is an interdisciplinary training for postgraduate students. It will help future experts in the humanities and social sciences reflect on how multilingual skills and creative approaches can be used to devise innovative solutions to environmental challenges – such as loss of habitat or climate migration. Through hands-on training activities in translation and the arts, postgraduate students from ENLIGHT universities will gain a new interdisciplinary understanding of their role in addressing environmental issues.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. reflect on how language policies can influence the discourse on climate change and sustainability. They will reflect on how current language use can maintain and reinforce existing inequalities, and devise ways of building new inclusive conversations about the environment.
2. familiarize themselves with creative and artistic techniques as a way of visualizing and reflecting on personal and political involvement with environmental themes.
3. employ their translation and intercultural communication skills and apply them to the specific task of addressing environmental issues.
4. improve interdisciplinary and international connections with fellow postgraduate students.
5. develop independent interdisciplinary research on the social and cultural aspects of climate change

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  Andrea Ciribuco 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "Language and Sustainable Development" by McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa; Tonkin, Humphrey
   Publisher: Springer
2. "Eco-Translation. Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene" by Cronin, Micheal
   Publisher: Routledge
3. "A Decolonial Ecology" by Malcom Ferdinand
   ISBN: 9781509546237.
   Publisher: Polity

OptionalFM6100: Film exhibition, administration and education

FM6100: Film exhibition, administration and education

Semester 1 | Credits: 10

This innovative module provides student with an introduction to important cultural areas increasingly relevant to film studies, film administration, education and curation. Structured around sessions with practitioners from each of these areas, this module provides students with crucial insights into the distinctive requirements and possibilities in each of these spheres and prepares them for potential employment opportunities in these areas.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. demonstrate an understanding of historical contexts in the distribution and exhibition of film
2. Understand practical and theoretical issues surrounding the distribution and exhibition of digital cinema
3. Undertake independent research into current case studies in the marketing, distribution and exhibition of film (incl festivals)
4. Demonstrate an understanding of practices around film programming in a range of cinematic and festival contexts
5. Develop an awareness and understanding of the work of developing young audiences and filmmakers
6. Gain experience in the programming of a film programme
7. Gain an understanding of the work and theoretical issues within film preservation and archiving

Assessments

• Department-based Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  ANTHONY TRACY 🖂
  
•  CONN HOLOHAN 🖂
  
•  Teresa O'Donovan 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "The death of cinema: History, cultural memory and the digital dark age" by Paolo Cherchi Usai
   Publisher: BFI
2. "Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen" by Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
   Publisher: Rutgers University Press

OptionalMIC6100: Resisting through Culture: Conflicts in Europe and Beyond

MIC6100: Resisting through Culture: Conflicts in Europe and Beyond

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module explores the transformative power of culture in times of conflict, considering, in particular, the literature that emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century following the post-war division of Europe. Works by Peter Schneider, Ivan Klíma, Václav Havel, Herta Müller and Malala Yousafzai form the focus of analysis. Situating these texts within their socio-political contexts of division and conflict, the module explores how literature and culture can be harnessed to facilitate and express resistance within and against totalitarian systems.
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss selected texts by Peter Schneider, Ivan Klíma, Václav Havel, Herta Müller, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant
2. Describe the socio-political contexts in which these texts were composed
3. Analyse how literature and culture can be used to express resistance within and against totalitarian political systems
4. Deliver a presentation based on a close reading of extracts from one of the core texts
5. Write an essay on one or more of the core texts

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  DEIRDRE BYRNES 🖂
  
•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  

Reading List

1. "The Wall Jumper" by Peter Schneider
2. "The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays" by Ivan Klíma
3. "The Land of Green Plums" by Herta Mueller
4. "Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990" by Václav Havel
5. "A Tempest, trans. by Philip Crispin" by Aimé Césaire
   Publisher: Oberon
6. "The Wretched of the Earth, transl. by Richard Philcox" by Frantz Fanon
   Publisher: Grove Press
7. "Poetics of Relation, trans. by Betsy Wing" by Édouard Glissant
   Publisher: University of Michigan Press

OptionalMIC501: Contemporary Literary Genres

MIC501: Contemporary Literary Genres

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

Can contemporary literatures be classified into genres and sub-genres and is this useful, how do literary genres exist or develop over time, can authors, audiences or interest groups become identified with a genre? The course will examine definitions of four 20th-/21st-century genres as they emerge in different cultural and literary spaces. Themes covered will include: Crime Fiction, narratives of ageing and dementia, speculative fiction and the facets of French Hip Hop. In each of the four areas, important exemplars of the genre will be examined as primary texts in the light of relevant theoretical discourses.

Assessments

• Continuous Assessment (100%)

Teachers & Administrators

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•  DEIRDRE BYRNES 🖂
  
•  CATHERINE EMERSON 🖂
  
•  TINA-KAREN PUSSE 🖂
  
•  KATHLEEN QUINN 🖂
  
•  Natalie Nevin 🖂
  
•  Rachel Robinson 🖂
  
•  Tamara De Ines Anton 🖂