<aside> 🚨 This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued.
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T.S. Eliot, as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature was a catalyst for modern literature. Contributing to hundreds of critical reviews and poetic works. In this module, students will engage with some of his seminal work — understanding what about his work has alllowed it to remain relevant and powerful across time.
<aside> ⭐ A key aspect of the module B course is analysing textual integrity - which is simply an evaluation of the texts unity, cohesiveness and value which all combine to makes it a timeless masterpiece.
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Characteristics of Textual Integrity Include:
Organic Unity: A text can demonstrate textual integrity if the themes and techniques of the text come together to form a unified whole.
Keep in mind: Module B Questions my assess the extent to which your prescibed text has this quality.
Universal Themes: A text can be said to have integrity if it contains ideas or themes that are relevant to humans from across time and different communities.
These Include: Love, Grief, Gender, Culture, death ect.
Critical Engagement: A text can demonstrate textual integrity by generating critical discussion. If people debate the meaning or ideas in a text, this suggests that it has an ongoing significance for audiences.