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School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Jane Austen Through Fiction and Film

• Unit Code

  ENG3142

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

• Unit Coordinator

  A/Prof Jill Felicity DUREY

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Description

This unit examines the novels by Jane Austen as well as their translation into film. It considers Austen and her fiction in their cultural and historical contexts and compares them with various film adaptations. Students learn a range of critical andtheoretical approaches in their investigation of Jane Austens world view and the magic timelessness of her writing and characters that inspire film-makers to re-invent her world and many an actor to become one of her characters.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3175

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Apply a range of critical approaches to the analysis of Austens novels and their film adaptations.
2. Discuss the main critical issues relevant to the study of Jane Austen, and apply these in a comparative way with the different slant given by various film-makers.
3. Discuss the practical and analytical issues associated with Austen and the translation of her work into film.
4. Identify the ways in which Austens novels and their film adaptations contributed to, the construction of social, historical and cultural contexts, both for their time and for today.
5. Relate Austens novels and their film adaptations to their social, historical and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

1. A consideration of material which provides an historical, social and cultural understanding of Jane Austen, her work and the films of her work.
2. A range of critical approaches to the novels of Jane Austen and their film adaptations.
3. A study of relevant critical and analytical models.
4. Analysis of representative texts of Jane Austen and their filmic versions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and screenings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Core Reading(s)

• Austen, J. (2007). Emma. Chandni Chowk, Delhi: Global Media.
• Austen, J. (2012). Mansfield Park. New Yprk: Start Publishing.
• Austen, J. (1972). Northanger Abbey. Penguin: Harmondsworth.
• Austen, J. (1964). Persuasion. Basingstoke: New American Library.
• Austen, J. (2008). Pride and prejudice. Harpenden, Hertz: PearEducation.
• Austen, J. (2001). Sanditon. London: Electric Book Co.
• Austen, J. (2008). Sense and sensibility. Oxford: PearEducation.

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