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What does it mean to inhabit a vulnerable body, or to embrace and celebrate ideas of vulnerability more generally? How can literature help us understand the precarity and uncertainty that seem like an inherent part of contemporary life? This course offers an overview of twenty-first-century women’s fiction from a variety of traditions, and centres on themes of embodiment, community, fragmentation, and environment. Examined together, these texts highlight the generic and thematic diversity of contemporary women’s writing, and the way the self must always be reconstructed through literature in new ways.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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What does it mean to inhabit a vulnerable body, or to embrace and celebrate ideas of vulnerability more generally? How can literature help us understand the precarity and uncertainty that seem like an inherent part of contemporary life? This course offers an overview of twenty-first-century women’s fiction from a variety of traditions, and centres on themes of embodiment, community, fragmentation, and environment. Examined together, these texts highlight the generic and thematic diversity of contemporary women’s writing, and the way the self must always be reconstructed through literature in new ways. The course emphasises the diversity of women’s experience and writing; authors to be studied may include Jesmyn Ward, Sara Baume, Aminatta Forna, Valeria Luiselli, and Sarah Moss. Some of the material in this course contains discussions of sensitive themes and topics; students with any concerns are encouraged to contact the course coordinator.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 45 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided in comments on the essay, with complementary verbal feedback available on request. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students completing the course will be able to evaluate current debates and research in contemporary women’s fiction. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students completing the course will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary theories of embodiment, precarity, environment, and formal aesthetics. |
| Factual | Understand | Students completing this course will be able to think and speak cogently about parallels and differences in selected contemporary texts. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Students completing the course will be able to reflect on and analyse dominant trends in contemporary’s women fiction, orally and in writing. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided via e-mail, with complementary verbal feedback available on request. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Students completing the course will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary theories of embodiment, precarity, environment, and formal aesthetics. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Students completing the course will be able to reflect on and analyse dominant trends in contemporary’s women fiction, orally and in writing. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 35 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided in comments on the essay, with complementary verbal feedback available on request. |
Word Count | 2500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students completing the course will be able to evaluate current debates and research in contemporary women’s fiction. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students completing the course will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary theories of embodiment, precarity, environment, and formal aesthetics. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Students completing the course will be able to reflect on and analyse dominant trends in contemporary’s women fiction, orally and in writing. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided via e-mail; oral feedback will be provided in seminar. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Students completing the course will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary theories of embodiment, precarity, environment, and formal aesthetics. |
| Factual | Understand | Students completing this course will be able to think and speak cogently about parallels and differences in selected contemporary texts. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Students completing the course will be able to reflect on and analyse dominant trends in contemporary’s women fiction, orally and in writing. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided in comments on the essay, with complementary verbal feedback available on request. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Procedural | Analyse | Students completing the course will be able to reflect on and analyse dominant trends in contemporary’s women fiction, orally and in writing. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students completing the course will be able to evaluate current debates and research in contemporary women’s fiction. |
| Factual | Understand | Students completing this course will be able to think and speak cogently about parallels and differences in selected contemporary texts. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students completing the course will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary theories of embodiment, precarity, environment, and formal aesthetics. |
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