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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 Understand and explain the correlation between visual and textual imagery that characterised the Surrealist movement
o Understand and expand on the key concepts of self-fashioning and gender identity
o Create a substantial bibliography on a relevant aspect of the topic
o Argue in detail and at length about an aspect of the topic, based on independent research
Works Studied:
Films:
Luís Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou (1929); L'Age D'Or (1930); Luís Buñuel El ángel exterminador (1962)
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’.]
Rafael Alberti, Sermones y moradas (1929-30)
Painting:
Selected works by the following artists:
Salvador Dalí
Leonora Carrington
Remedios Varo
Frida Kahlo
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 6 |
Specified Learning Activities | 10 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 180 |
Total | 220 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: End of trimester essay | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Assignment: Critical commentary on a painting | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Assignment: Critical commentary on a poem | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment 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 commentaries which will help them to prepare for the final essay.
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33 | Mon 13:00 - 13:50 |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Wed 13:00 - 13:50 |