Module Details
| Module Code: |
MEDA H8004 |
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Full Title:
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Theories of Reading, Reception and Audience
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| Valid From:: |
Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 ) |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
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| Module Owner:: |
Fiona Fearon
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| Module Description: |
The aim of this module is to explore paradigms of the reader and the audience and their reception processes from Aristotle to today's online environment. We will critically assess the various models and analyse reader/user experience through the reception and reaction of both the reading and viewing audience to a number of key controversial, censored or banned texts from European and North American literature in translation and in English.
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| Module Learning Outcome |
| On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to: |
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Module Learning Outcome Description |
| MLO1 |
Analyse the impact of censorship on the production and publication of literature and drama |
| MLO2 |
Explore different paradigms of the audience and its reception process |
| MLO3 |
Evaluate their personal experience of being an audience/reader of text and performance |
| MLO4 |
Critically assess the factors effecting the reception of readers and audiences to literature, popular culture and media |
| Pre-requisite learning |
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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| No recommendations listed |
| Module Indicative Content |
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Theories of Reading
What is Audience?, Semiotics; Reception Theory; Horizons of expectation; Interpretive Communities
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Theories of Audience and the Performance Event
Performance Theory, The Gaze, Spectacle, Narcisism, the Live Event, digitised reception
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Theories of Media Audiences
Effects to uses and gratifications; Stuart Hall, encoding/decoding; ethnography research into 'social audiences'; Fandom and fan creativity as cultural capital;
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Censorship
Deliberate or overt censorship of performance and publication; history of censorship in Ireland; self censorship and its impact on the writer; riots and audience reactions to censored or banned texts
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Key points of controversy in audience reception
Using a number of important texts the historical and contemporary reception will be discussed as a way of accessing reception. Examples of texts that might be used would be: Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Ibsen's, A Doll's House; Synge, The Tinker's Wedding; O'Casey, Drums of Father Ned; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover; George Orwell, 1984; Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; Tom Kilroy, The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roache; Edward Bond, Saved; J.G. Ballard, Crash; Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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Module Assessment
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Course Work | 50.00% |
| Final Examination | 50.00% |
| Module Special Regulation |
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AssessmentsFull Time On Campus
Part Time On Campus
| Reassessment Requirement |
A repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will consist of a repeat examination. It is possible that there will also be a requirement to be reassessed in a coursework element.
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DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Workload
| Workload: Full Time On Campus |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
2.00 |
2 |
| Tutorial |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
1.00 |
1 |
| Directed Reading |
Non Contact |
Reading primary texts for tutorial discussion |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Independent Study |
Non Contact |
Preparation of continuous assement and wider secondary reading |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
9.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
3.00 |
| Workload: Part Time On Campus |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
1.00 |
1 |
| Tutorial |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
1.00 |
1 |
| Directed Reading |
Non Contact |
Reading primary texts for tutorial discussion |
Every Week |
4.00 |
4 |
| Independent Study |
Non Contact |
Preparation of continuous assement and wider secondary reading |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
9.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
2.00 |
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Module Resources
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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Bennett, Susan. (1994), Theatre Audiences, Routledge,, London and New York.
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Eagleton, Terry. (2008), Literary Theory, 25th Anniversary Edition. Wiley Blackwell.
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Hodkinson, Paul. (2017), Media, Culture and Society, 2nd. Sage, London.
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Abercrombie, N and Longhurst, B. (1998), Audiences: A sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination, Sage, London and Thousand Oaks, CA:.
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Baker, Kenneth. (2016), On the Burning of Books, Unicorn Press, London, [ISBN: 978-191078711].
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Brooker, Will and Deborah Jermyn. (2003), The Audience Studies Reader, Routledge, London and New York:.
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Freshwater, Helen. (2009), Theatre & Audience, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
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Gillespie, Marie, ed.. (2005), Media Audiences, Open University Press, Maidenhead.
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Kemp, Geoff, ed.. (2014), Censorship Moments, Bloomsbury, London, [ISBN: 978-147251284].
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Karolides, Nicholas, Bald, Margaret and Sova, Dawn. (1999), 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories and World Literature, Checkmark Books, New York.
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Leitch, Vincent B.. (2010), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Second Edition. Norton and Company, New York and London.
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Martin, Peter. (2006), Censorship in the Two Irelands, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, [ISBN: 978-071652829].
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Moore, Nicole, Ed.. (2017), Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View, Bloomsbury, London.
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Schechner, Richard. (2013), Performance Studies, revised edition. Routledge, London and New York.
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Schroder, Kim and Kirsten Drotner, Stephen Kline, Catherine Murray. (2003), Researching Audiences, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Svich, Cariad. (2012), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre and Performance, EyeCorner Press, Roskilde.
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| Other Resources |
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website, Participations, on-line periodical,
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