| Educational guide Faculty or Arts |
| Cultural Studies in English Language. Texts and Contexts (2009) |
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| POSTMODERN SPACES AND PLACES: SELF AND THE CITY |
 
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| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2011_12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subject (*) | POSTMODERN SPACES AND PLACES: SELF AND THE CITY | Code | 12605105 | |||||||||||||||
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | Exam timetables and dates | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Compulsory | First | Only annual |
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| Modality and teaching language | See working groups | |||||||||||||||||
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| Department | Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys |
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liz.russell@urv.cat |
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| General description and relevant information | According to postmodernist theories space does not exist as a blank to be filled. It is already marked by social factors. The planet earth, nature, the city and the home are all socially constructed by the perceiver, the spectator, the reader, the traveller and dweller. And vice-versa, space constructs the subject. This module will look at ways in which the dialectic between subjectivity and space construct each other, sometimes producing places and cities which are dystopian. Postmodernist theories have revolutionised architecture and the urban spaces we inhabit by deconstructing the power systems which produce them. This course will discuss these theories in the context of films and fiction. | |||||||||||||||||
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| (*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. | ||||||||||||||||||
