DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES

Please note that whilst every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this listing, not all optional modules listed below will necessarily run in 2011/2012.

Please note that students not studying for literature degrees must normally have obtained a good pass in English Literature A-level or one of the English Department’s first level modules before taking a higher level module offered by this Department.

The most up-to-date list of available modules and corresponding information is on the website at the following address:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/undergraduate/current/modules/optionsmarket/

List of Contents

FIRST YEAR / LEVEL ONEEN101 The Epic TraditionEN105 Approaches to Reading in English and FrenchEN121 Medieval to Renaissance English LiteratureEN122 Modes of ReadingEN123 Modern World Literatures

SECOND YEAR / LEVEL TWOEN201 The European Novel EN213 US Writing and Culture, 1780-1920EN227 Romantic and Victorian PoetryEN228 Seventeenth-Century Literature and CultureEN229 Literary & Cultural TheoryEN238 The Practice of Poetry EN302 European Theatre

PLEASE NOTE: ENGLISH LITERATURE DEGREE 2ND YEAR STUDENTS ONLY

Students embarking on the Second Year of their English Literature Degree should choose their modules in accordance with their chosen Pathway and ignore any restrictions listed regarding 2nd Year/Final Year modules.

PLEASE SEE APPENDIX (A) AT THE BACK OF THIS HANDBOOK FOR MODULES AVAILABLE FOR EACH PATHWAY.

THIRD YEAR / LEVEL THREE (Final Year Only)EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of His TimeEN329 Personal Writing Project (English and Creative Writing and Invited Finalists Only) **EN236 The Practice of Fiction (English and Creative Writing Finalists Only)

ENGLISH OPTIONAL MODULES

EN206 Comparative Literature 1: English & German RomanticismEN238 The Practice of Poetry**EN240 Screenwriting **(only available to English Literature, English Literature & Creative Writing and English & Theatre Studies students)EN245 The English Nineteenth-Century NovelEN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature*EN248 Modern American PoetryEN251 New Literatures in EnglishEN252 ChaucerEN261 Introduction to Creative Writing* / **

EN263 Devolutionary British Fiction: 1930 – Present EN264 Explorations in Critical TheoryEN265 The Global NovelEN266 Selected Topics in Canadian LiteratureEN268 Modernist CulturesEN270 Transnational Feminism, Literature, Theory and PracticeEN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American WritingEN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic LiteratureEN275 Romanticism, Revolution, ReactionEN328 English Literature and Feminisms, 1790-1899EN330 Eighteenth-Century Literature EN332 The Romantic-Period NovelEN333 Poetry and EmotionEN335 Literature and PsychoanalysisEN336 States of DamageEN343 Drama, Performance and Identity Post 1955EN348 Twentieth-Century Avant-gardesEN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature

Please note:Modules marked * are available as 100% Assessed ONLY. Please check that your examination weighting allows you to take these modules before choosing them.

Modules marked ** are part of the Warwick Writing Programme. Students who are not following the English Literature and Creative Writing degree pathway will not be allowed to take more than two creative writing modules for the whole of their degree.

EMR (Electronic Module Registration)Please note the codes for assessment to help you register on OMR:A = 100% AssessedB = 100% ExaminedC = 50% Assessed; 50% Examined (50/50)D = 40% Assessed; 60% Examined (60/40)

You will be contacted via your Warwick email account in the Summer Vacation with the dates when eMR will be open. Please note that English Department students will need to have their registration individually approved by their personal tutor and by the English Undergraduate Secretary after the start of the Autumn Term 2011-2012.

READING LISTS AND TEACHING STRUCTURESPlease consult the module pages on the English Department’s website at the end of the summer for updated reading lists and teaching structures.

EVENING CLASSESOur provision of evening classes varies as we coordinate with the Centre for Lifelong Learning on a yearly basis. Please consult with your Personal Tutor with regard to the availability of modules in any particular year.

TIMETABLESAll students will be sent individual timetables from the English Department confirming lecture and seminar times, for their English modules only, prior to the start of the Autumn term.

MODULE DESCRIPTIONS

EN101 THE EPIC TRADITIONDR ELIZABETH CLARKE

Objectives and Outline SyllabusChronologically this is the first of the Warwick English Department’s distinctive genre-based modules, in which the great literary genres are studied—through translation where appropriate. The principal texts (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Derek Walcott’s Omeros) form a foundation for the module, in the same way as they served as objects for study and imitation (to a greater or lesser extent) to all the writers who followed.

Method of Assessment: First Years: 1 x 3-hour examination (B: 100% Examined). Honours level: 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% Assessed) OR 1 x 5,000-word essay plus a 2-hour examination (C: 50/50).

EN105 APPROACHES TO READING IN ENGLISH AND FRENCHDR SAMANTHA HAIGH / DR AMANDA HOPKINS

This seminar-based module uses the methods of practical criticism as an approach to the analysis of poetry. The module focuses on methods and issues of translation and close analysis. Comparative study is a core feature, preparing the ground for second- and third-year modules in comparative literary analysis. Various poetic forms are introduced and compared, and analytical techniques are developed in comparison of examples in English and French. The module also incorporates an introduction to several important poetic movements.

The module has a bipartite structure:1. Translation and commentary examines the problems of transmitting poetry from French

to English within a theoretical framework and addresses issues of the interplay of interpretation and translation.

2. Comparative analysis focuses on the close examination of English and French poems in a variety of forms.

Method of Assessment: 1 x 3-hour examination (B: 100% Examined).

NB: Students interested in taking this module as an option should make an appointment with Dr Sam Haigh in the French department before enrolling on it, as it is taught in the French department and requires a good standard of French at A level or equivalent.

EN121 MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATUREDR CHRISTIANIA WHITEHEAD

ObjectivesThis module will study a number of works of medieval and renaissance English literature in the context of contemporary beliefs and historical and social developments.  The module will be taught by means of language classes (first term only) to introduce students to Middle English; lectures on the historical, cultural and critical context; and seminars to discuss particular texts. Students will be required to write two non-assessed essays and two non-assessed critical commentaries.

Outline SyllabusTexts to purchase: The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Volume B (Norton, 8th edn.); The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. A Burrow (Penguin); Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene ed. A.C. Hamilton (Longman). Works studied will include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Spenser’s, Faerie Queene Bks I and 3; poems by Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe and John Donne.

Method of Assessment: First Year: 1 x 3-hour examination (to include translation, commentaries and an essay) (B:100% examined); Honours level (ie where the course is taken as an option by students not in their first year): 2 x 3,000-word essays (60%), 1 x 1½-hour exam (to include translations and commentaries) (40%) (D: 60/40).  Two non-assessed essays are also required for all students taking the module.

EN122 MODES OF READING

ObjectivesThe module offers an introduction to the practices of criticism. Form, genre and literary inheritance will be among the topics addressed. The module aims to enable students to work with a variety of critical approaches and to develop an informed awareness of the possibilities available to them as readers and critics. Thematically organised lectures provide a frame of cultural reference on which the students will draw in their close readings in seminars.

Methods of Assessment : A:100% Assessed

Term 1: Two Essays of 2,000 words each to be set by seminar tutors. Term 2: Assessed Essay 1 (3,500 words), weighted as 50 percent of your course mark. Term 3: Assessed Essay 2 (3,500 words), weighted as 50 percent of your course mark. (A:100% Assessed).

EN123 MODERN WORLD LITERATURES DR NICK LAWRENCE

ObjectivesAn introduction to some of the defining concerns, historical contexts and characteristic formal features of modern world literatures from 1789 to the present. The syllabus is divided into sections on literatures of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, nineteenth-century modernity and empire, modernism and world war, and the Cold War/decolonization, with a focus on post-1989 writing in the third term. Teaching is by a weekly lecture and small-group seminar. Lectures introduce literary, historical and/or theoretical contexts as well as discussion of specific authors and works, while seminars involve closer discussion of the texts themselves.

The set texts vary from year to year but may include the following:

Goethe, Faust Part I; Shelley, Frankenstein; Beaudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Lu Xun, “A Madman’s Diary”; Kafka, The Metamorphosis; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children; Beckett, Endgame; Nabokov, Lolita; Ngugi wa Thiong’o, A Grain of Wheat.

Methods of assessment: First-year students: 1 x 1,500-word essay and 1 x 2,500-word essay plus a portfolio of 3,000 words (A: 100% assessed).

Honours level (i.e., where the course is taken as an option by students not in their first year): 3 x 3,000-word essays (A: 100% assessed).

EN201 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL DR GRAEME MACDONALD

ObjectivesThe European Novel module seeks to provide an understanding of the novel form through the study of works of European fiction from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. By studying a range of texts from across Europe, the course aims to explore central transitions of the form and the range of narrative possibilities and thematic concerns it encompasses, focusing in particular on differences of period, region and culture; on the nature of narrative and the formal techniques and devices of narration; and on the complex issues raised by the idea of realism in different literary, geographic and historic contexts.

Outline SyllabusGoethe, The Sufferings of Young Werther; Shelley, Frankenstein; Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Stendhal, The Red and the Black; Dickens, Great Expectations; Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Zola, Germinal; Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; Hamsun, Hunger; Conrad, The Secret Agent; Joyce Ulysses; Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; Kafka, The Trial; Laxness, The Atom Station

Method of Assessment: 1 x 5,000-word essay and one x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50) (Philosophy & Literature students alone may elect to take the module by B: 100% examination.)

EN206 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE I: ENGLISH AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM DR BIRGITT OEHLE

Students interested in taking this module as an option should make an appointment to have a brief interview with the module convenor before enrolling on the module.

ObjectivesThe module covers the period from about 1770 to 1830, from the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ to the late romantic poetry of Byron and Heine. Although this is a period where there is a significant interchange of influence between the two literatures, the main focus of the seminars will not be on such influence but rather on the ‘family likeness’ between works in the two languages, on the comparative examination of themes and motifs.

Outline SyllabusTexts will include: Goethe, Selected Poems; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798); Goethe, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther (1774); Kleist, Die Verlobung in St Domingo (1808); Scott, The Highland Widow (1826); Goethe, Faust I (1808); M Shelley, Frankenstein (1818); Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1813); Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824); Hoffman, Der goldene Topf (1812); Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (1827); Keats, Lamia (1819); Fouqué, Undine (1815); Poems by Blake, Hölderlin, Shelley, Novalis, Byron and Heine.

Method of Assessment: 1 x 5,000-word essay and 1 x 3-hour examination (C: 50/50).

EN213 U.S. WRITING AND CULTURE, 1780-1920 DR NICK LAWRENCE

ObjectivesThis module explores central issues in U.S. literary and discursive writing and culture in texts ranging from the early Republic to the early twentieth century. During this period the U.S. grew from a small breakaway state to a continental nation, enduring periodic crises of gender, race and class relations. The module will examine the ways in which these matters were represented and contested.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 3,000 word essays plus 1 x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50)

EN227 ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRYDR EMMA MASON

ObjectivesThis module addresses the work of several major Romantic and Victorian poets and situates their writing within the dominant debates of these periods (religious, philosophical, social, political, scientific and aesthetic). Seminars and lectures focus on both the formal and cultural contexts of the poems, which are studied in relation to contemporary and modern theories of prosody, gender, class, subjectivity and genre.

Outline SyllabusPoets studied include: Charlotte Smith, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, John Clare, Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Alfred Tennyson,

Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Amy Levy and Oscar Wilde.

Method of Assessment: 1 x 1,500 word close reading exercise (unassessed but required); 1 x 1,500 word close reading exercise (assessed: 15%); 1 x 3,500 word essay (assessed: 35%); 1 x 3 hour exam (assessed: 50%). This module’s assessment code is C.

EN228 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTUREDR ELIZABETH CLARKE

ObjectivesThis module covers one of the most exciting periods of English history. The seventeenth century in England saw two revolutions, huge constitutional changes, the widening of the political and literary classes and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This module aims to trace these political and social changes through the literature of the seventeenth century, and consider how these historical changes themselves transformed literary writing in English. In the process, it looks at some writing that is marginal to the literary canon and reads well-known literature in new and exciting ways.

Outline SyllabusPoetry: Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips, John Milton, the Earl of RochesterDrama: Ben Jonson, William Wycherley, George Etherege, Aphra BehnProse: Agnes Beaumont, Aphra Behn.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 2,500-word essays and 1 x 2-hour seen exam (C: 50/50)

EN229 LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY PROFESSOR NEIL LAZARUS

ObjectivesThis module is intended as an introduction to the contemporary academic sub-field of critical theory. Because the field as it is currently constituted is too large and heterogeneous to admit of a formal survey within the constraints of a two-term syllabus, the readings for the module have been clustered around certain nodal issues or debates. The aim of the module is to familiarise students with the general contours and parameters of contemporary critical theory and to introduce key concepts, methods, debates and controversies in the field. This is not a module in “practical criticism”. It does not approach critical writings with an eye to their “application” to specific literary texts. Instead, it might be thought of as aiming to provide a basis - epistemological, methodological and institutional— for the study of cultural (and social) texts in general.

Outline SyllabusSelected writings by such writers as: Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Cassanova, Foucault, Freud, Habermas, Irigaray, Jameson, Kant, Marcuse, Marx, Moretti, Soper, Williams.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 2,500-word essays and 1 x 2-hour seen examination (C: 50/50)

EN236 THE PRACTICE OF FICTION: CONTEXTS, THEMES AND TECHNIQUES (English Literature and Creative Writing Finalists only)

PROFESSOR MAUREEN FREELY

This module will introduce students to a range of writers, techniques and contexts in British and international literature, through a range of thematic approaches. Reading will range from literary ancestors of the short story, through to contemporary ‘sparse’ stylists, and on to dystopic, anti-canon and ‘weird’ writers, taking in a range of seminal novels, magic and dirty realists and a range of Latin Americana along the way. 

Seminars involve a balance of analysis of written works and practical written exercises. Students will be expected to read several texts from the extensive secondary reading lists, alongside weekly class reading, during the year.

Students are expected to attend various visiting writers’ events throughout the year. Method of Assessment: A final portfolio consisting of two short stories (5,000 words total) and a personal essay (5,000 words) about themes in British fiction (A: 100% Assessed) OR a fiction portfolio (4,000 words total) plus 1 x 3 hour examination consisting of 3 essay questions, or 2 essay questions and one creative assignment (C: 50/50).

EN238 THE PRACTICE OF POETRYPROFESSOR DAVID MORLEY

ObjectivesThe module will introduce students to a range of traditional and contemporary approaches to writing and reading poems. The module is taught through a series of poetry workshops in The Writers’ Room. The workshops allow you to study and create poems, and to understand and adopt the techniques that suit, as well as challenge, your developing voice as a maker of poems. There are workshops on many different types of form as well as opportunities to experiment and break new ground. There is an emphasis on group-work, practice-led learning and creative reading. You are strongly encouraged to use the office hours provided by Writing Programme tutors for individual and group tuition. You are also asked to attend all spoken word events which usually take place in The Writers' Room on Thursday afternoons. Method of Assessment

A portfolio of original poetry (50%) AND 1 x 5,000 word assessed essay (50%) which can be a critical research project on the practice of poetry (A: 100% Assessed).  For students requiring examination, the module is examined by the portfolio described above (50%) AND 1 x 3 hour final examination (50%) (C: 50/50).  The examination will consist of parts A, critical questions about the practice of poetry; and B, a creative project.  Students have the option either to answer three questions from part A only; or to answer two questions from part A and carry out one creative project from part B.  EN240 SCREENWRITING

(Only available to English Literature, English Literature & Creative Writing and English & Theatre Studies students)

ANNA LEA

ObjectivesThe module aims to give a clear introduction to screenwriting through a combination of analytical and practical exercises. No previous knowledge of scriptwriting is required, though focus and engagement with the form is essential. Students will understand the techniques of screenwriting and be able to apply them in their own creative work. Through discussions of the film industry and visits from professionals, students will also understand the role of the screenwriter within a production team and the industry as a whole.

Outline SyllabusPlease see module webpage for detailed syllabus.

Please note that the dates for visiting screenwriters are subject to change.

Methods of Assessment: EITHER: 100% Assessed (A) 1 x 5,000 word essay (50%) AND 1 x original script of 4,000 words (50%).OR: 1 x original script of 4,000 words (50%) AND 1 x 3 hour exam (50%) (C: 50/50)

EN245 THE ENGLISH NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELDR GILL FRITH

ObjectivesThis module aims to explore the form of the novel and the ways in which it develops in the particular context of nineteenth-century Britain, responding to rapid social change - and the possibility of revolution - and the correspondingly shifting understanding of class, gender, sexuality, nation and culture. We shall focus particularly on the theorisation and representation of space, place and embodiment: the country and the city, the house and its objects, and how the body inhabits space. This focus will enable new readings of what may seem to be familiar texts.

Outline SyllabusNovelists studied will include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Henry James and Oscar Wilde, and we shall also be looking at some non-fictional writing on politics and aesthetics. The subject is a rich one and the writing embraces the sensational and the satirical as well as fictions of social realism.

Methods of Assessment: 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% Assessed) OR one essay of 5,000 words plus a 2 hour examination (C: 50/50).

EN246 FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATUREDR GILL FRITH

ObjectivesThe aim of the module is to consider a range of literary texts written by women in the context of some of the debates and critical theories brought into prominence as a result of contemporary feminism. Reading will include realist, modernist and post-modernist texts, lesbian fiction and novels by Black and Asian women writers. In studying these texts we shall pay particular attention to the writers’ treatment of the following topics: the social and symbolic construction of gender and sexual difference; genre and form; cultural iconography; writing and the body; crossing cultures; ‘female Gothic’; reading and romance; ‘writing as revision’.

Outline SyllabusTexts will be selected from nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction and are likely to include: Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle and/or Alias Grace; Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; A.S. Byatt, Possession; Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber; Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca; Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness; Andrea Levy, Fruit of the Lemon; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Meera Syal, Anita and Me; Sarah Waters, Fingersmith and/or Affinity.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% Assessed)

EN248 MODERN AMERICAN POETRYDR CHRISTINA BRITZOLAKIS

ObjectivesThis module studies the shaping of a North American and transatlantic modernist poetic around notions of linguistic innovation and experiment. Our aim is to show how the project of 'making it new' in American poetry addresses changing constructions of modernity in both national and international contexts. We will relate the poetry to a range of prose and visual materials of the period, including avant-garde manifestoes, critical essays, paintings, photography, cinema, popular music (e.g. music hall, jazz, burlesque) and periodicals. The poetry studied will be placed in cultural and social contexts such as urbanization, immigration, migration, technology, labour, war and the rise of ‘mass’ media and mass culture.  We will think about different spaces –domestic, urban, rural and social - which these writers engage. Other issues to be explored include the politics of gender, race and class, tensions between 'nativist' and 'cosmopolitan' impulses and the interaction of American and European avant-garde movements.

Outline Syllabus: likely to include selected poems and other writings by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore.

Method of Assessment: EITHER 100% Assessed: 2 x 5,000-word essays OR 50/50: 1 x 5,000-word essay (50%) and 1 x 2-hour exam (50%).

EN251 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISHPROFESSOR NEIL LAZARUS

ObjectivesThis module aims to introduce students to the emergent body of literature being produced by writers from South Africa and South Asia, and to situate it in terms of the historical circumstances that have engendered it and to which it represents a response. The module will examine the ways in which writers mediate between local conditions and the forms of the novel in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Writers from South Africa and South Asia today confront a (prospectively) global audience. Issues under review will range very widely: for example, race, violence, religion and communalism, 'modernisation' and the environment, sex and gendered identity, nation and state, memory, trauma and prolepsis, English as a world language and English as culturally imperialist.

Outline SyllabusThe first term will be devoted to India, and will involve the study of works by such authors as Manto, Mahashweta Devi, Seth, Mistry, Ghosh and Roy; the second to South Africa, featuring works by such authors as Gordimer, Coetzee, Dangor, Ndebele, Wicomb, Van Heerden, Mda and Vladislavic.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 2,500-word essays (50%) and 1 x 2-hour seen examination (50%) (C: 50/50)

EN252 CHAUCERDR CHRISTIANIA WHITEHEAD

ObjectivesThis option will study Chaucer’s principal works in Middle English in the light of his sources and of medieval culture more generally. In the first term we will explore Chaucer's early dream vision poems and his great love poem of the Trojan war, Troilus and Criseyde, alongside relevant works by Machaut, Boccaccio and Boethius.  In the second term, we will treat his late works, The Legend of Good Women and The Canterbury Tales, alongside The Romance of the Rose and futher relevant contextual material. All these poems will also be examined with an eye to the history of Chaucer criticism, and to the various theorized readings that have emerged during the last forty years.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 5,000-word essays (A:100%) or 1 x 5,000 word essay and 1 x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50).

Pre-requisites: Students will need a sound reading knowledge of Middle English, such as they might have acquired on EN121 Medieval to Renaissance or by careful study of Chaucer at A-level. Works originally written in French, Italian and Latin will be studied in translation.

EN261 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING

ObjectivesThe module aims to help students to develop practical and creative skills in writing poetry and fiction and also critical skills in exploring the aims and processes involved in their work and that of published practitioners. There will be occasional free events and lectures with visiting writers, which students are expected to attend. Assessment (100% coursework) is by a portfolio of poetry and/or fiction, and an essay that conceptualises students' own writing practices in relation to other writers' work and practice. Demand for this module is very high, so places are awarded selectively on the basis of a) a written statement of 200 words maximum, saying why you want to do the course and what you think you have to offer to it and b) an example of your writing, not more than 3 pages long - e.g.

part of a story or some poems. This material should be submitted to the English Office (H506) by Friday 6 May 2011. No advice will be given as to what you choose to submit within this portfolio. Method of Assessment: A: 100% Assessed: 1 x 5,000 word creative portfolio of fiction, or equivalent in poetry AND 1 x 5,000 word essay.

EN263 DEVOLUTIONARY BRITISH FICTION: 1930- PRESENT DR MICHAEL GARDINER

ObjectivesThis module looks at what we mean when we refer to Britain and Britishness, and how this has changed over recent (post-1939) history. This question has become of central importance to everyday life in the British Isles, but is rarely addressed in English Literature courses. It has also been amplified by key events such as the process of political devolution (the partial splitting of the UK’s constituent nations) in 1999-2000, the Northern Irish peace process, the 7/7 bombings and British participation in the Iraq War. Ideas of a ‘changing Britain’ or even of a ‘post-British’ culture have great currency in wider ‘global’ debates, as we will explain.

This module presents a diverse range of texts from the British Isles that question the makeup of Britain and our reception of British Writing (and English Literature) since World War Two. It considers the significant movements and events shaping British life, from the post-war period of consensus to the current ‘devolutionary moment’: the rise of Celtic nationalisms; the retraction of Empire; the impact of immigration on Britishness; the structuring effects of Thatcherism and New Labour; changing contexts of race and racism; musical movements especially punk, post-punk, Industrial, reggae, rave, and electronica; terrorism and violence; nationalist disenchantment with and resistance to the British State; the factual impact of devolution; ever-changing debates surrounding multiculturalism and citizenship; the question of British tourism, heritage and tradition; the ‘devolved’ role of London; and the rise of ‘Englishness’ and questions of ‘post-British’ culture. Students will also be introduced to a range of critical approaches that will inform their reading of texts, some of which are by very well-known authors who we consider to be lacking in probing interpretations. The module will help students to realise the degree of literary diversity in the British Isles, and the devolution of English Literature will be examined relative to the development of other ‘British’ Literatures: Scots, Irish, Welsh, Black British, British Asian, etc.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 2,500 word essays and 1 x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50)

EN264 EXPLORATIONS IN CRITICAL THEORYPROFESSOR NEIL LAZARUS / PROFESSOR STEPHEN SHAPIRO

ObjectivesThis module is intended to allow sustained engagement with the work of a few important literary and cultural theorists. The format enables us to read widely across the work of the chosen theorists and to develop a deep, informed and detailed knowledge of their ideas and methods. We will read Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in Term 1, and Karl Marx and Michel Foucault in Term 2. Term 1 will address such questions as the purview of 'English' studies, the relation between literature and society, the historicality of literary form, 'distinction' and the 'pure gaze' of the aesthetic. Term 2 will be focused on drawing out the singularity and thrust of Marx's and Foucault's ideas, placing the two writers into conjunction and disjunction.

Method of Assessment: EITHER 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100%) OR 2 x 2,500-word essays (50%) AND 1 x 2 hour seen examination (50%).

EN265 THE GLOBAL NOVEL

DR GRAEME MACDONALD

ObjectivesCan we comprehensively analyse any cultural form without considering its global perspective? Following arguments advanced by theories of world literature, this module will allow students to understand ‘The Novel’ as a genuinely global genre. We will read novels (in translation) from the early 19th century to the present within the framework of recent debates over modernity and globalisation. We will also consider how widening our comparative and international perspective enables us to read and interpret novels (even the most seemingly ‘local’ or ‘national’ productions) as irresistibly ‘global’. The module analyses how certain novelistic forms, themes and issues ‘travel’ – discovering ways certain works contain traces, adaptations and importations of ‘core’ (or global) themes, and adapt, remodel or reject them in accordance with local/national expressions. Put simply, in reading these ‘global’ novels, we will seek to determine genuine ‘global’ themes, issues and processes that connect specific novels to those in other territories. A novel’s ‘globality’ will be established primarily in its form and content, but also in its commercial and cultural production and geopolitical conditioning. The module will demonstrate why a global perspective necessarily reconfigures a comparativist outlook and reinforces it as a requisite for literary studies in the 21st century.

For 2011/12 the module will be organised into related but discrete ‘themes’, including Home/World/Global Naturalism/Permanent War/Ecology and Energy.

Outline Syllabus

Weeks 1-7 - Home/World: John Galt, Annals of the Parish ; Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World ; Haldór Laxness, Independent People; Gabríel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe ; Abdalrahman Munif, Cities of Salt Vol 1. Alasdair MacLeod, No Great Mischief, Émile Zola, L’Assommoir ;Term 2: The Travels of Naturalism: Frank Norris, McTeague; Aluíso Azevedo, The Slum; Ousmane Sembène, God’s Bits of Wood; Permanent War: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun; A. L. Kennedy, Day; James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent ; Salam Pax, The Baghdad Blog; Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil; Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love.

Method of Assessment: Either: 1 x 5,000-word essay and 1 x 2-hour examination OR 2 x 5,000-word essays.

EN266 SELECTED TOPICS IN CANADIAN LITERATUREDR CATHIA JENAINATI

ObjectivesThis module examines key developments in Canadian writing and history with the aim of highlighting the distinctive texture of Canadian experiences and identities. The chosen texts focus on the lives, struggles and contributions of a selection of writers and storytellers from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, enlarging and diversifying the picture of the past found in conventional historical accounts. The module offers students an opportunity to widen the scope of their knowledge of North American history, literature and culture, and to expand their understanding of literary theory. In addition, the topics covered are specifically taught within the context of Canada but the module offers students an opportunity to conduct comparative analyses with texts from other modules on their degree course.

Outline Syllabus

Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush; James De Mille, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder; Frederick Philip Grove, Settlers of the Marsh; Grey Owl, Tales of an Empty Cabin (excerpt); Hugh MacLennan, Barometer Rising; Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House; Robertson Davies, Fifth Business; Margaret Atwood, Surfacing and The Journals of Susanna Moodie; Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women; Joy Kogawa, Obasan; Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion; Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water.

Method of Assessment : EITHER 100% Assessed: 2 x 5,000-word essay OR 50% assessed and 50% examined: 1 x 5,000-word essay AND 1 x 2-hour exam.

EN268 MODERNIST CULTURESDR CHRISTINA BRITZOLAKIS

ObjectivesThe module studies selected texts as a response to the radically changed perceptions of time and space brought about by social modernity. It treats literary modernism not as a dogma, but as a plurality of innovative or experimental writing practices, arising at different times and places, though often within shared intellectual networks, between the 1900s and the 1930s. We will relate these practices to the energies of social modernity, such as imperialism, the Great War, urbanization, suffragism, the rise of organized labour and new technologies of communication and transport. The module will also touch upon literary modernism’s dialogue with international developments in other media such as the visual arts, music and cinema. This module offers an opportunity for detailed study of one of the major modernist texts, James Joyce's Ulysses; Term 2 is set aside for this purpose.

The modernist concern with radically altered senses of space and time will be explored in a series of related contexts: the Edwardian critique of imperial ideals of masculinity and Englishness; avant-garde attacks on liberal democracy; modernism's ambivalent relationship to popular culture; the traumatic effects of the First World War; the representation of the city in relation to national and global space; primitivist appeals to ‘instinct’ and the unconscious; and changing ideologies of sexuality and gender.  

Outline Syllabus:Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Ford Madox Ford,The Good Soldier; E.M. Forster, Howards End ; Wyndham Lewis et al, Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex; Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land ; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love; Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark; James Joyce, Ulysses.

Method of Assessment: EITHER 50% assessed and 50% examined: 1 x 5,000-word essay AND 1 x 2-hour exam OR 100% Assessed: 2 x 5,000-word essay.

EN270 TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM, LITERATURE, THEORY AND PRACTICEDR RASHMI VARMA

ObjectivesThis module will explore the relationship between Anglo-American and European feminist literary theory and Third World feminisms. As such, it will examine the tensions, negotiations and new articulations (specifically as transnational feminism) that can be read through the lens of historical developments from the nineteenth century to the present. In particular, the history of Euro-American colonialism, anti-colonial movements, nationalisms, decolonization, development and modernization projects post-World War II, the crises of global capitalism, new social movements, and neo-liberalism will provide broad frameworks for understanding transnational feminism.

Outline SyllabusUnit 1: Gender and Empire; Unit 2: Gender, State and Nation; Unit 3: Gender and Globalization; Unit 4: Gender and the New Empire. Each unit will have a key literary text around which the different theoretical questions will circulate.

List: Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World; Assia Djebar, Fantasia; Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions; Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy; Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps.

Method of Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay and 1 x 2-hour exam (C: 50/50)

EN271 EXPATRIATION, DISPATRIATION AND MODERN AMERICAN WRITINGDR DANIEL KATZ

ObjectivesThis module has several overlapping and complementary aims. 

First, we shall examine the long tradition of American expatriate writing, while seeing this writing not as an escape from questions of American identity, but as a paradoxically privileged space for a dialectical encounter with them.

Second, we will study writing which if not biographically “expatriate” nevertheless undertakes an explicit revaluation of the relationship between “American” and “European” from the perspective of a rejection of prevailing myths of historical, religious, or cultural separation and difference, especially as they inform American “exceptionalism.”

Finally, the module will introduce some of the methodology and key issues of transatlantic studies, in an effort to think through how “area studies” and other forms of work on cultural appurtenance and specificity can be rearticulated along comparatist lines, in a movement of resistance to reified regionalist or nationalist ontologies.  In this connection, certain authors whose biographies test the question of what or who is or is not “American” are deliberately included.  Among the module’s major concerns will be such issues and tropes as tourism and cultural capital; the relation of Eros to exoticism; local idiom and linguistic identity; diaspora and cultural palimpsest; and constructions of home and foreign.

Outline SyllabusAuthors studied will include Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, T. S. Eliot, Alejo Carpentier, and Claude McKay.

Method of Assessment: 100 % assessed (A): 2 x 5,000 word essays (due week 3, term two, and week 3, term 3)50% assessed, 50 % examined (C): 1 x 5,000 word essay (due week 3, term 2), and 1 x 2-hour examination.

EN274 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LITERATURE DR CATHIA JENAINATI

ObjectivesThis module examines key developments in the literatures of the contemporary Arabic-speaking world (post-1945) with the aim of highlighting the distinctive texture of its experiences and identities. The chosen texts convey the complex and rich cultural diversity of peoples who have been collectively labelled as Arabs but whose histories, politics and religious affiliations are varied and often disparate. One of the aims of this module is to challenge, enlarge and recast the picture of the Arab world commonly found in the Western media.

The module offers students an opportunity to widen the scope of their knowledge of Arabic history, language, literature and culture, and to expand their understanding of literary theory. In addition, the topics covered are specifically taught within the context of the Arabic literary tradition but the module offers students an opportunity to conduct comparative analyses with texts from other modules on their degree course.

NOTE: All novels are taught in English though you may work on the original text if you know Arabic.

Outline SyllabusHanna Mina, Fragments of Memory; Abd al-Rahman Munif, Endings; Elias Khoury, City Gates; Ibrahim el Koni, Annubis: A Desert Novel; Ibrahim el Koni, The Seven Veils of Seth; Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley; Emile Habibi, The Secret Life of Saeed: the pessoptimist; Nabil Saleh, The Qadi and the Fortuneteller; Liana Badr, The Eye of the Mirror; Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley; Mansoura ez Eldin, Maryam’s Maze; Miral Al Tahawy, Gazelle Tracks: A Modern Arabic Novel; Nawal el Saadawi, The Fall of the Imam Hanan el Sheikh, The Story of Zahra; Hamdy El Gazzar, Black Magic.

Method of Assessment: This module is available as 100% Assessed (code A) OR as 50% assessed and 50% examined (code C).

EN275 ROMANTICISM, REVOLUTION, REACTIONPROFESSOR JON MEE

ObjectivesThe aim of this module is to introduce students to the turmoil of the revolutionary years and the defining effect they had on literature and culture in English, including the definition of defining such foundational terms as ‘literature’, ‘culture’ ‘the nation’ and ‘the people’. We will be examining conventional literary texts, but also caricatures, reviews, and essays from the period.

Outline SyllabusPoetry by Burns, H. M. Williams, Hannah More, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron. Novels: William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794); Eliza Fenwick, Secresy (1796); Edgeworth, Belinda (1801) and Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (1816); prose by Burke, Paine, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft, Shelley; Hazlitt; and Hunt; caricatures by Gillray.

Method of Assessment: EITHER 2 x 5000 word essays (A: 100% Assessed) OR 1 x 5,000 word essay AND 3 hour examination (C: 50/50)

EN301 SHAKESPEARE AND SELECTED DRAMATISTS OF HIS TIMEDR PAUL PRESCOTT

ObjectivesIn this module we look at a selection of plays by Shakespeare and some of his most eminent contemporaries in the context of the theatre and culture of the time. In the first term we aim to write a ‘grammar’ of the Elizabethan theatre and to explore elements of the texts and performance in a concentrated body of four plays. We discuss ways in which these plays have been (and are being) produced in the modern theatre and on film. We are interested in history and politics as well as performance, poetry and genre – we aim to set Shakespeare’s early career against Christopher Marlowe’s, then observe his development as a writer of comedy and tragedy against selected plays by, for example, Thomas Middleton and John Webster. The module also features theatre trips and a range of practical events; these are designed to encourage a creative and theatrically sensitive engagement with Shakespeare’s texts.

Outline SyllabusHamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, Volpone, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Changeling.

Note on Teaching Methods:Traditional: (1.5 hours per week) discussion and close textual analysis in a tutorial situation;

Practical: (2 hours per week): 'Shakespeare without chairs' active exploration of texts in three dimensions. 

Hybrid: (1.5 hours per week) combines in equal measure traditional and practical approaches.

Method of Assessment: 1 x 5,000-word essay (50%) and 1 x 3-hour examination (50%). The assessment code for this module is C.

EN302 EUROPEAN THEATREPROFESSOR TONY HOWARD

ObjectivesTo introduce a range of major plays from the European repertoire, considering them as texts for performance and reflecting their original theatrical conventions and how they work as plays on the modern stage. To explore the ways drama has been used as a medium for ideas and as a mirror for social change.

Outline SyllabusPlays to be studied might include Aeschylus The Oresteia, Sophocles Antigone, Ibsen Hedda Gabler, Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Brecht Galileo, Kane, Phaedia’s Love.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 3,000-word essays and 1 x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50)

EN328 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND FEMINISM, 1790-1899DR EMMA FRANCIS

ObjectivesThis module explores some aspects of the political and intellectual provenance of a range of 19th century feminisms and examines the impact of these debates upon English literary culture in the period. The module moves from a starting point of the feminisms produced by the battle between conservative and radical politics at the turn of the 19th century, through the feminisms of the mid-century, which looked to liberalism and related positions to legitimate their arguments, to the diversification of feminist debates through the lenses of Darwinism, socialism, new discourses about sexuality and discussions around the significance of the city at the end of the 19th century. The module will construct a dialogue between 19th century literary texts, 19th century feminist and anti-feminist discourses and the way in which this relationship has been understood in the late 20th and 21st centuries by historians, historiographers and literary critics.

Outline SyllabusGrant Allen, The Woman who Did; Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce’; Charlotte Brontë, Villette; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South; George Gissing, The Odd Women; Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs; Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife and ‘The Sorrows of Yamba: or the Negro Woman’s Lamentation’; John Stuart Mill, ‘On the Subjection of Women’; Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Germaine de Stael, Corinne, Or Italy; Bram Stoker, Dracula; Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria or the Wrongs of Woman.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 5,000 word essays (100% assessed) OR 1 x 5,000 word essay and 1 x 2 hour exam (50/50).

EN329 PERSONAL WRITING PROJECT (English Literature & Creative Writing Finalists only)

PROFESSOR MAUREEN FREELY

The Personal Writing Project is for final year students reading for the B.A. ‘English Literature and Creative Writing’. As with the optional module ‘Dissertation’, it is a fully assessed piece of independent, guided work to produce a substantial and original portfolio of either short fiction, an excerpt from a longer work of fiction, poetry, new writing for stage/screen, accompanied by a reflective and critical essay on the aims and processes involved. The module enables creative writers to work closely with a practitioner in a specific genre for two terms, allowing the student to specialise at a crucial time of their development as a writer. The Personal Writing Project is especially useful for students who seriously intend a career as a professional writer or are considering a post-graduate degree in creative writing.

Assessment (A: 100% assessed)A portfolio of creative writing and a critical, reflective essay on the aims and processes involved. The portfolio will be one of the following:

Fiction: 10,000 words of original fiction which can take the shape of 2 or 3 short stories, or an excerpt from a longer work-in-progress. The essay is 2000 words.

Poetry: 30 pages of new poems which can also be presented as a long poem or a sequence of poems (no less than 30 lines per page). The essay is 4,000 words.

Playwriting or Screenwriting: An original stage play or screenplay of no less than 5,000 words, with a treatment of no more than 1000 words. The essay is 4,000 words.

Narrative Non-Fiction: 10,000 word project of which 2,000 words will be a critical reflective essay.

EN330 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE DR JOHN GILMORE

ObjectivesThis module aims to give a broad introduction to the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain.  This was also the period that witnessed the creation and development of the modern form of the novel (we will study Robinson Crusoe), the flowering of uniquely brilliant and biting literary satire (including Gulliver’s Travels), new kinds of drama in the wake of the “discovery” of Shakespeare and the invention of the practice and literature of the perennially iconic English landscape garden.  The module focuses primarily on literary texts as it moves through an eventful and often turbulent period in history, from the “Glorious” Revolution of 1688 to the American and French Revolutions towards the end of the eighteenth century.  This was a time of financial revolution in the British economy, of commercial expansion, of continual warfare for European and colonial power and of global exploration. It was also the period when the great debate about the slave trade forced readers to reassess their views of the relationship between Europeans and other peoples.  The module will explore the period through the lens of five major themes, blending shorter extracts from the set anthology with some longer readings.

Outline SyllabusThe Rise of the Novel, exploring a period of unique development and experimentation in the writing of fiction:  *Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Eliza Haywood, Fantomina, *Sterne, Tristram Shandy, *Smollett, Humphry Clinker.Literature, Politics and Satire, focusing mainly on the anti-government satire of the earlier eighteenth century, but also including the anti-war and anti-colonial writing of the later decade:  *Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Pope, The Dunciad, Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Goldsmith, The Deserted VillageThe Other at Home and Abroad: exploring how different publics, from highly educated readers to audiences for popular theatre saw a variety of “Others,” from the English working classes, through the inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire, to enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean. Selections from eighteenth-century Latin verse by British writers (texts and translations to be supplied), Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour, *Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters, Francis Williams, poem to the Governor of Jamaica (text to be supplied), George Colman, Inkle and Yarico, *Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, Drama:  focusing on the comic achievements of this period, from Congreve, The Way of the World, to Sheridan’s The Rivals and Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and also the great Shakespeare revival of this period (including Johnson’s preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare). Countryside to Landscape:  exploring the aesthetics and practice of the landscape garden, and the literary recreation of the countryside, including Pope, “Epistle to Burlington”, Gray, “Elegy”, Crabbe, The Village [extracts], Mary Collier, “The Woman’s Labour”, and Cowper, The Task [extracts]. 

The set anthology is *Robert DeMaria ed., British Literature, 1640-1789:  An Anthology (Blackwells, third edition, 2008).  Other texts to buy or borrow in advance are marked * above.

Method of Assessment: 2 x 2,500-word essays plus 1 x 3-hour examination (C: 50/50)

EN332 THE ROMANTIC-PERIOD NOVELPROFESSOR JON MEE

ObjectivesThis module aims to introduce students to novel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, using a selection of the most popular and important novelists of the day.  Although the Romantic period is most commonly associated with poetry, the novel achieved its modern form at this time; the module aims, through close study, comparison, and contextual work, to think about the development of the form across this period.  We will investigate issues such as sensibility and sympathy, romance vs. the novel, gender roles, the relationship between history, culture and the novel, and the changing status of the novel as a cultural form.  All students will be expected to give an oral presentation of approximately 15 minutes. Outline Syllabus:Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768); Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778), Ann Radcliffe, Romance of the Forest (1791), Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1794), Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796), Elizabeth Hamilton, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers(1800), Jane Austen, Emma (1815), Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya (1806), Walter Scott, The Antiquary (1816), Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1817)

Method of Assessment: EITHER 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% Assessed) OR 1 x 5,000-word essay AND 1 x 2-hour exam (C: 50/50).

EN333 POETRY AND EMOTIONDR EMMA MASON

Objectives:This option explores the role of emotion in nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. The module explores: (1) how poetry expresses and articulates emotion, both formally (in specific kinds of language, prosody and rhythm), and thematically (in describing our experiences of love, friendship, mourning, religion, nature); (2) how critics writing about poetry have approached the question of communicating this expression in essay form; and (3) how we as modern readers understand emotion through our reading of poetry.

Outline SyllabusPoets studied include: William Wordsworth; Alfred Tennyson; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Edgar Allan Poe; Christina Rossetti; Elizabeth Bishop; e. e. cummings; Sylvia Plath; Robert Frost; Marcel Proust; William Carlos Williams; Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Thomas; Elizabeth Jennings; W. S. Merwin; Ted Hughes; Michael Donaghy; J. H. Prynne. There is no overlap with EN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry.

Method of Assessment: Students may take this module as either A: 100% assessed; or C: 50% assessed and 50% examined. The 100% assessed route is 2 x 5,000 word essays (50%/50%); the 50% assessed, 50 % examined route is 1 x 5,000 word essay and 1 x 2-hour examination (50%/50%).

EN335 LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: TRAUMA, FANTASY, THE DEATH DRIVEMR JOHN FLETCHER

Objectives and Outline SyllabusThe module aims to introduce students to some of the main concepts of psychoanalysis – trauma, repression, the unconscious, the sexual and death drives, the ego and unconscious fantasy, etc. It will look at Freud’s model of the dream as a text and at the psychoanalytic mode of

interpretation of dreams and symptoms that pays attention to their unconscious processes of symbolisation and offers a model for reading literary and cultural works. The module takes Freud’s theory seriously and students will be able to write theoretical essays on meta-psychological problems and debates, if they so wish. As well as his theoretical works we will be looking at some of Freud’s famous clinical case studies (‘Little Hans’ and ‘The Wolf Man’ ) and his readings of works of art: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and the dark novellas of E. T. A. Hoffmann (such as ‘The Sandman’ and ‘Mlle. de Scudery’), all of which play a key role at important turning points in Freud’s theoretical development.

Method of Assessment: EITHER: 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% assessed) OR: 1 x 5,000-word essay AND 1 x 2-hour seen examination (C: 50/50)

EN336 STATES OF DAMAGE: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY US WRITING & CULTUREDR NICK LAWRENCE / PROFESSOR STEPHEN SHAPIRO

ObjectivesThis module surveys recent cultural dispatches from the United States in their attempt to make sense of a world in chaos — a world where political and environmental chaos appears to surpass even the routinized chaos of global capitalism. The spectacular terror of September 11, 2001 seemed to many Americans to announce a new world disorder unimaginable before that date. Since 2001, however, the source of much of the ‘new’ global chaos is increasingly being traced to well established patterns within the U.S. itself; hence the texts and cultural documents we’ll be examining take on the character of self-diagnoses.

The module presents different modes of American writing (fiction, poetry, social analysis, graphic narrative, video and digital/online media) and focuses on a variety of themes: the individual in a mediatised and information-saturated global market; eco-catastrophe; the perception and experience of terror; the return to more overt forms of military imperialism; the family as focal point for registering global change, and as site for social reproduction of class struggle; and the culture of personal trauma, nostalgia, and collective historical memory.

Method of assessment: A: 100% assessed: 2 x 5,000-word essays OR C: 50/50 1 x 5,000 word essay and 1 x 2 hour seen exam.

EN343 DRAMA, PERFORMANCE, & IDENTITY, POST 1955 DR NICHOLAS MONK

ObjectivesThis module asks to students to think of the many ways in which “drama”, “performance” and “identity” are connected and intertwined in late 20th/early 21st century culture. The module seeks to illuminate notions such as the nature of individual identity broadly, national identity, bodily identity, gender identity, racial identity and spiritual identity. The more recent material will be used to reflect both upon the increasing prominence of consumer, hybrid, border and marginal identities, as well as the notion that identity can shift, that it can be fragmented, and that a variety of identities can exist simultaneously. Students will be required to read a minimum of 1 play per week alongside relevant critical material. Students should also be prepared to work a practical way that embodies their knowledge. No acting skills are required, however, and students with no “theatrical” experience at all are welcome to join. The first term’s work will involve 9 x 2-hour sessions, and the second term will involve independent guided study.

Outline SyllabusBeckett, Samuel. Collected Shorter Plays, Endgame; Churchill, Caryl. Plays 2, The Skriker; Genet, Jean. The Blacks: A Clown Show; Gomez-Peña, Guillermo. The New World Border; Kennedy, Adrienne. Adrienne Kennedy in One Act; Kushner, Tony. Angels America; Lori-Parks,

Suzan. The America Play and Other Works; Müller, Heiner. Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage; Ravenhill, Mark. Shopping and Fucking; Tucker Green, Debbie. Stoning Mary.

Method of Assessment:  60% examination (performance project) AND 40% assessed work: 1 x 3,000 word essay (D: 60/40)

EN348 TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES: CULTURE, POLITICS, CONTESTATION DR MICHAEL GARDINER/ DR DANIEL KATZ

ObjectivesThis module will look at experimental writing, drama, happenings, and film, between the mid-1900s and late 1960s, particularly in terms of how art intervenes as social and political action. While deliberate avant-gardism in the twentieth century is too wide-ranging and disparate to be covered in a single module, we will focus on contestations in terms of (1) the global political-economic-cultural-linguistic hegemony of Europe and the US – and we will take in texts from Japan, the Caribbean, South America, and other parts of the world; (2) the hegemony of social class, region and ethnicity – and we will examine radical forms of ‘provincial’modernism (MacDiarmid and Joyce) as well as ‘négritude’ and the Harlem Renaissance; (3)the ascendancy of bourgeois, liberal democracy – looking at texts with an explicitly and unequivocally revolutionary agenda, including Futurism, Eisenstein, Neruda, Brecht, Situationism; (4) social and sexual hegemony, as thrown into question by queer writing (Barnes, Stein, Mishima) and contestatory women's writing (Loy, Duras) as well as by elements of Surrealism; (5) hegemony of literary form, as a reliable conduit for and enforcer of the market-place and culture industry as arbiters of value. Here, we introduce, situate, and historicise formal departures which are too often and easily seen as ‘clever innovations’, rather than proactive reformulations.

Method of Assessment : 2 x 5,000-word essays (A: 100% Assessed), OR 1 x 5,000-word essay plus 1 x 2-hour examination (C: 50/50).

EN351 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH AND SCOTTISH LITERATURE PROFESSOR THOMAS DOCHERTY

ObjectivesFirst of all, we will be seeking a sense of the nature of the field: that is, the work will be an introduction of sorts. However, it will be an introduction that tries to find what, in the work of our selected writers, might be ‘representative’ of wider questions concerning the nature of whatever it is that is ‘Ireland’, whatever it is that is ‘Scotland’ and what it means if we preface the word ‘literature’ with either of those national adjectives.

Secondly, we will seek what it is in this work that might address much more general questions of cultural value. The task is not one where we focus on national identities, nor on national characters (however important we might discover this to be), but rather upon the value of difference as something that helps us to read this selection of writing from the modern and contemporary moments.

Thirdly, we will look at how questions of geography intertwine with questions of history: more abstractly, how does the geo-politics of space (issues of habitation; earthworks and earth-writing; exploration; travel, exile, nostalgia; isolation; etc) play alongside the chrono-politics of time (attitudes to the past, present and future; speed and pace or rhythms of living; modernity and modernisation; the arrangement of the day or month or year; etc).Through this, we will find a mode of engagement with this writing that will try to move beyond issues of national identity and of cultural politics as they are often understood. We may not always succeed in this; but along the way, we should find a mode of engagement with a broad group of writers whose work is of great international importance.

Indicative Reading List :

Ireland: poetry by Heaney, Muldoon, McGuckian, Boland; drama by Freil (Translations) ; fiction by Deane (Reading in the Dark), McGahern (That They May Face the Rising Sun), and Banville (Ghost);Scotland: poetry by Morgan, Dunn, Lochhead; fiction by Kelman (A Disaffection) and Rankin (Set in Darkness)

Methods of Assessment: 2 x 2,500 word essays (50%) AND 1 x 2 hour exam (50%) (C: 50/50)

PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING PAGE FOR APPENDIX A

Appendix AENGLISH LITERATURE DEGREE YEAR 2 STUDENTS ONLY:

THE ENGLISH PATHWAY

Pathway Approved Options Distributional Requirement OptionsYou must take THREE of these across the two years. You must take at least ONE in Year 2.

You must take ONE of these across the two years.

You must take FOUR other modules across the two years. These modules

may be any honours level module offered by the Department, including

any of the designated Pathway Approved Options and Distributional Requirements. You could take up to

ONE honours level module from outside the Department. Module

EN320 (Dissertation) may be taken as an option (normally in year 3)

EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his Time

EN228 Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture

EN330 Eighteenth-Century Literature

EN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Modules available in 2011(12) as Distributional Requirement

EN201 The European Novel EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory and PracticeEN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1920 EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American WritingEN229 Literary and Cultural Theory EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature EN248 Modern American Poetry EN302 European TheatreEN251 New Literatures in English EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN263 Devolutionary British Fiction EN336 States of DamageEN265 The Global Novel EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature EN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature

Modules available in 2011(12) as Options

EN201 The European Novel EN268 Modernist CulturesEN206 Comparative Literature 1: English & German Romanticism

EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory, Practice

EN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1820 EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American WritingEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature EN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN275 Romanticism, Revolution, ReactionEN229 Literary and Cultural Theory EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN238 The Practice of Poetry EN302 European Theatre EN240 Screenwriting EN320 Dissertation*EN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN328 English Literature and Feminisms 1799 - 1890EN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature * EN330 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureEN248 Modern American Poetry EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN251 New Literatures in English EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN252 Chaucer EN334 Crime Fiction, Narrative and Empire: Britain 1850-1947*EN261 Introduction to Creative Writing* EN335 Literature & PsychoanalysisEN263 Devolutionary British Fiction 1930 - Present EN336 States of Damage: 21st Century U.S. Writing and CultureEN264 Explorations in Critical Theory EN343 Drama, Performance and Identity, post 1955EN265 The Global Novel EN348 Twentieth Century Avant-gardesEN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature

Modules marked with an asterisk * are wholly assessed only.

THE NORTH AMERICAN PATHWAY

Pathway Requirement Pathway Approved Options

Distributional Requirement (pre-1900)

Options

This module may be taken in either the second or third year

You must take ONE of these across the two years.

You must take TWO of these across the two years.

Distributional means any module with a pre 1900

element.

You must take FOUR other modules across the two years. These modules may be any honours level module offered by the Department, including any of the designated Pathway Approved Options and Distributional Requirements. You could take up to ONE honours level module from outside the Department. Module EN320 (Dissertation) may be taken as an option (normally in year 3)

EN213 U.S. Writing and Culture EN248 Modern American Poetry

EN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature

EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American Writing

EN336 States of Damage: 21st Century U.S. Writing and Culture

Modules available in 2011(12) as Distributional Requirement

EN201 The European Novel EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN302 European Theatre

EN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN328 English Literature and FeminismsEN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN330 The Eighteenth CenturyEN252 Chaucer EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN275 Romanticism, Revolution, Reaction EN333 Poetry and Emotion

Modules available in 2011(12) as Options

EN201 The European Novel EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory, PracticeEN206 Comparative Literature 1: English & German Romanticism

EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American Writing

EN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature EN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN275 Romanticism, Revolution, ReactionEN229 Literary and Cultural Theory EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN238 The Practice of Poetry EN302 European Theatre EN240 Screenwriting EN320 Dissertation*EN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN328 English Literature and Feminisms 1790 - 1899EN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature * EN330 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureEN248 Modern American Poetry EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN251 New Literatures in English EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN252 Chaucer EN334 Crime Fiction, Narrative and Empire: Britain 1850-1947*EN261 Introduction to Creative Writing* EN335 Literature & PsychoanalysisEN263 Devolutionary British Fiction 1930 - Present EN336 States of Damage: 21st Century U.S. Writing and CultureEN264 Explorations in Critical Theory EN343 Drama Performance and IdentityEN265 The Global Novel EN348 Twentieth Century Avant-gardesEN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish LiteratureEN268 Modernist Cultures

Modules marked with an asterisk * are wholly assessed only.

THE THEORY PATHWAY

Pathway Requirement Pathway Approved Options

Distributional Requirement (pre-1900)

Options

This module may be taken in either the second or third year

You must take ONE of these across the two years.

You must take TWO of these across the two years. Distributional means any module with a pre 1900 element.

You must take FOUR other modules across the two years. These modules may be any honours level module offered by the Department, including any of the designated Pathway Approved Options and Distributional Requirements. You could take up to ONE honours level module from outside the Department.

Module EN320 (Dissertation) may be taken as an option (normally in year 3).

EN229 Literary and Cultural Theory

EN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature

EN264 Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies

EN328 English Literature and Feminisms 1790-1901

EN335 Literature and Psychoanalysis

Modules available in 2011(12) as Distributional Requirement

EN201 The European Novel EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1920 EN302 European TheatreEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN328 English Literature and FeminismsEN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN330 The Eighteenth CenturyEN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN252 Chaucer EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN275 Romanticism, Revolution, Reaction

Modules available in 2011(12) as Options

EN201 The European Novel EN268 Modernist CulturesEN206 Comparative Literature 1: English & German Romanticism

EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory, Practice

EN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1820 EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American WritingEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature EN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN275 Romanticism, Revolution, ReactionEN238 The Practice of Poetry EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN240 Screenwriting EN302 European Theatre EN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN320 Dissertation*EN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature * EN328 English Literature and Feminisms 1790 - 1899EN248 Modern American Poetry EN330 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureEN251 New Literatures in English EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN252 Chaucer EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN261 Introduction to Creative Writing* EN334 Crime Fiction, Narrative and Empire: Britain 1850-1947*EN263 Devolutionary British Fiction 1930 - Present EN335 Literature & PsychoanalysisEN264 Explorations in Critical Theory EN336 States of Damage: 21st Century U.S. Writing and CultureEN265 The Global Novel EN343 Drama, Performance and Identity, post 1955EN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature EN348 Twentieth Century Avant-gardes

EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature

Modules marked with an asterisk * are wholly assessed only.

WORLD AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PATHWAY

Pathway Requirement Pathway Approved Options

Distributional Requirement (pre-1900)

Options

One of these modules must be taken in either the second or third year

You must take ONE of these across the two years.

You must take TWO of these across the two years.

Distributional means any module with a pre 1900

element.

You must take FOUR other modules across the two years. These modules may be any honours level module offered by the Department, including any of the designated Pathway Approved Options and Distributional Requirements. You could take up to ONE honours level module from outside the Department.

Module EN320 (Dissertation) may be taken as an option (normally in year 3).

EITHER:

EN201 The European Novel

OR:

EN302 European Theatre

EN251 New Literatures in English

EN263 Devolutionary British Fiction

EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory, Practice

EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature

EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature

Modules available in 2011(12) as Distributional Requirement

EN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1920 EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN328 English Literature and FeminismsEN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN330 The Eighteenth CenturyEN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN252 Chaucer EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN275 Romanticism, Revolution, Reaction EN334 Crime Fiction, Narrative and Empire: Britain 1850-1947*

Modules available in 2011(12) as Options

EN201 The European Novel EN268 Modernist CulturesEN206 Comparative Literature 1: English & German Romanticism

EN270 Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory, Practice

EN213 U.S. Writing and Culture, 1790-1820 EN271 Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American WritingEN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry EN274 Comparative Perspectives on Arabic Literature EN228 Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture EN275 Romanticism, Revolution, ReactionEN229 Literary and Cultural Theory EN301 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of his TimeEN238 The Practice of Poetry EN302 European Theatre EN240 Screenwriting EN320 Dissertation*EN245 The English Nineteenth-Century Novel EN328 English Literature and Feminisms 1790 - 1899EN246 Feminist Perspectives on Literature * EN330 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureEN248 Modern American Poetry EN332 The Romantic Period NovelEN251 New Literatures in English EN333 Poetry and EmotionEN252 Chaucer EN334 Crime Fiction, Narrative and Empire: Britain 1850-1947*EN261 Introduction to Creative Writing* EN335 Literature & PsychoanalysisEN263 Devolutionary British Fiction 1930 - Present EN336 States of Damage: 21st Century U.S. Writing and CultureEN264 Explorations in Critical Theory EN343 Drama, Performance and Identity post 1955EN265 The Global Novel EN348 Twentieth Century Avant-gardesEN266 Selected Topics in Canadian Literature EN351 Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature

Modules marked with an asterisk* are wholly assessed only