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ENG-20082 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 25 December 2024

ENG-20082 - Classic Novels on Screen
Coordinator: Nicholas Seager Tel: +44 1782 7 33142
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None.

Barred Combinations

None.

Description for 2024/25

This module is for anyone interested in how novels continue to inspire films and television series. Through a series of case studies, we will look at the artistic strategies of both literary and screen texts, how they cohere, and how they clash. We will analyse film versions of classic novels both for how they keep alive and pay homage to the novels that inspired them, but also for how they sometimes write back adversarially, challenging the national, gendered, class, and racial politics of the literary canon.

Aims
- To develop students' skills in the analysis and interpretation of prose fiction and especially its adaptation into film/TV texts.
- To introduce students to concepts, theories, and contexts relevant to the screen adaptation of literary classics.
- To give students opportunities to engage with external organisations involved in film adaptations.

Intended Learning Outcomes

analyse screen adaptations with respect to their aesthetic strategies, sociocultural contexts, and relationship to literary works: 1,2
demonstrate understanding of and apply concepts relevant to screen reworkings of novels, including theories of adaptation and appropriation: 1,2
research a topic related to screen adaptations of novels and communicate findings in assessed work: 1,2

Study hours

Active Learning 48 hours:
12 hours of lectures
24 hours of seminars
12 hours of film screenings
Independent Study 102 hours:
55 hours of reading / seminar preparation
12 hours posting to and reading discussion threads
35 hours completing project

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Exercise weighted 30%
KLE discussion threads


2: Project weighted 70%
Project


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 25 December 2024