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Capita selecta 733


 
Module code LCC 733
Qualification Postgraduate
Faculty Faculty of Humanities
Module content

A choice from the following themes:
Narrativity
Narrativity vs. classical narratology. The transaction between narratives and audiences. Employment. Eventfulness. Tellability. Fictionality. Life and Narrative. ; the function of narrative in the creation of “social memory”; historiographic meta-fiction”; study of texts (literary and historical) from various languages and periods.
or
(Auto) biography in world literature
The history of biography and autobiography; biography, autobiography and their relationship to other genres; theories about subjectivity and identity (“self”), fact and fiction, objectivity and representation; study of relevant texts.
or
Media genre theory
Genre theory as applied to culture and media studies. The factors contributing to the formation of media genres, the internal and external features as well as the reception of media products will be discussed in this module.
 
Module credits 20.00
Prerequisites No prerequisites.
Contact time 1 lecture per week
Language of tuition Afrikaans and English is used in one class
Academic organisation Afrikaans
Period of presentation Year
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