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Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
4105ENGL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To develop skills in writing, argumentation, and close reading premodern texts.
2. To introduce students to ways texts are transformed in a series of historical and intertextual contexts.
3. To develop students' awareness of key methods in the study of English.
4. To enable students to recognise the diversity of forms and concerns of literature in English.
5. To prepare students for Level 5 modules.
Learning Outcomes
1.
understand a range of critical approaches to literature.
2.
apply analytic reading skills to a range of texts.
3.
Produce work which displays an awareness of different methodological approaches to reading texts and which is presented according to the methods and format required by the subject area.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:[Indicative only]
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson
Margaret Atwood The Penelopiad
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas More, Utopia
Arthur Golding’s translation of Metamorphosis (selections)
Selection of Wyatt and Henry Howard sonnets, with their corresponding sonnet from Anthony Mortimer’s translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere
Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene (selections)
Robert Greene, Pandosto
William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
John Milton, Paradise Lost (selections)
Lucy Hutchinson, Order and Disorder (selections)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
Fairy Tales and their sources
Module Overview:
World, Time and Text introduces you to texts from different periods and of different styles and genres. A primary concern of the module is intertextuality, and you are encouraged to make connections between quite different texts, to trace themes and concerns across time and space, and to discover and express intertextual relationships through scholarly analysis. The module introduces some important fields within literary studies, such as postcolonial writing, children's fiction, and feminist literature, and particular areas of enquiry such as ethics and identity.
World, Time and Text introduces you to texts from different periods and of different styles and genres. A primary concern of the module is intertextuality, and you are encouraged to make connections between quite different texts, to trace themes and concerns across time and space, and to discover and express intertextual relationships through scholarly analysis. The module introduces some important fields within literary studies, such as postcolonial writing, children's fiction, and feminist literature, and particular areas of enquiry such as ethics and identity.
Additional Information:This module is designed to introduce students to different genres (text) and how they travel across different regions (world) and periods (time). It is primarily designed to introduce students to premodern literature and writing styles, and some literary transformations as subsequent writers respond to them. While primarily concerned with reading texts, students will be introduced to literature in translation and gain an understanding of how texts are transformed. Genres covered include romance, epic, Utopian writing, courtly love lyric, and prose fiction, and students will cover key themes such travel, environment, race, gender and sexuality, power and authority. This module examines, among other topics, the global context for premodern literature in English, including matters of race and slavery in (indicative example) Aphra Behn’s Oroonooko (1688), linking to the further discussion of this topic at the next level (5102ENGL).