to introduce students to key debates about the relationship between minds and bodies across a broad historical span
to encourage students to relate philosophical, historiographical, and theoretical debates on questions of embodiment and consciousness to the particularities of literary and other texts
to enable students to develop skills in close reading and argumentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
to enable students to develop skills in group work and presentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
Module learning outcomes
Demonstrate an awareness of how the relationship between minds and bodies has been conceptualised from the medieval through to the modern period.
Have developed an appropriate critical vocabulary to express ways of thinking about embodiment and consciousness.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the relationship between ontology and the literary imagination.
Assessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam Team Presentation
N/A
100
Special assessment rules
None
Reassessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework Reassessment: 1500 word Essay
N/A
100
Module feedback
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Indicative reading
The reading list will vary from year to year; selections may be drawn from classical Greek and Roman texts; Renaissance drama; early 18th-century poetry; 19th-century poetry and fiction; 20th-century poetry, drama and fiction. Key critical texts will include Mary Crane, Shakespeares Brain, Tim Ingold, Perceptions of the Environment, and extracts from the work of Merleau Ponty, Heidegger, and Husserl.