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Course Description
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Course Name
Writing and Identity
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Host University
University of Stirling
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Location
Stirling, Scotland
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Area of Study
English
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
Please note: Introductory core modules are aimed at students who have done very little literature.Advanced core modules are for students who have completed introductory modules in their own institutionsover 3 semesters. Students may be admitted to advanced options modules but this will depend on the numberof literature courses they have already completed at their home institution. -
Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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SCQF Credits
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Recommended U.S. Semester Credits5
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units7
Hours & Credits
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Overview
This module sets out to explore the construction and recognition of identity by way of a multiple questioning ofthe subject. It seeks to foreground recent innovative reflections on the status of the individual subject throughfour related ?areas of study?: self-fashioning; the spectacle of the ?other?; nation and identity; contested selves.There are few areas that have attracted as much interest in contemporary English Studies as the constitutionand representation of the self. Questions of identity loom large in literary texts and theoretical reflections: theself as embodied entity, as the repository of individual and collective memories, as the subject of psychoanalyticscrutiny, as product and producer of cultural and national identities, and as the site of conflict betweencompeting claims of belonging. Increasingly, movements of people and ideas represent a further challenge tothe conventional collective, cultural, and national boundaries that constitute the identity and status of theindividual. Yet it is not only identity that has been called into question, but also many of the assumptions andmethodologies that once characterized different disciplinary approaches to and theories of the self.
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