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On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
o Identify Surrealist imagery in painting, poetry and film
o Relate key images and texts to their wider historical context
o Analyse and interpret a painting or a piece of text
o Argue in detail and at length about an aspect of the topic, supporting the argument with evidence from the image/text and with opinions from secondary literature
o Understand the correlation between visual and textual imagery that characterised the Surrealist movement
o Understand the key concepts of self-fashioning and gender identity
Works Studied:
Film:
Luís Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Poetry:
Federico García Lorca, Poemas en prosa (1927-28)
[Poems studied in order: ‘Santa Lucía y San Lázaro’, ‘Nadadora sumergida’, ‘Degollación del bautista’, ‘Amantes asesinados por una perdiz’, ‘Suicidio en Alejandría’.]
Painting:
Selected works by the following artists:
Salvador Dalí
Leonora Carrington
Remedios Varo
Frida Kahlo
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 34 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 52 |
Total | 110 |
An interest in literature and the visual arts.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Continuous Assessment: Annotated bibliography | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Essay: 2,500 word essay | End of trimester MCQ | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Continuous Assessment: Critical commentary 750 - 1,000 words | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Students will engage in peer feedback activities of critical commentary before the first summative critical commentary assessment. They will receive written feedback on the critical commentary which will help them to prepare for the final essay. They will also receive feedback on the annotated bibliography before submission of the final essay.
Name | Role |
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Dr Tara Plunkett | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |