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Important Degree Information : B.Sc./M.A. Honours The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally 4 years (and not more than 5 years) or part-time equivalent; the final two years being an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 (H) levels. Refer to the appropriate Faculty regulations for lists of subjects recognised as qualifying towards either a B.Sc. or M.A. degree. B.Sc./M.A. Honours with Integrated Year Abroad The general requirements are 540 credits over a period of normally 5 years (and not more than 6 years) or part-time equivalent; the final three years being an approved Honours programme of 300 credits, of which 60 credits are gained during the integrated year abroad, 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 (H) levels. Refer to the appropriate Faculty regulations for lists of subjects recognised as qualifying towards either a B.Sc. or M.A. degree. General Information: For students who spend part of the Honours programme abroad on a recognised Exchange Scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account courses taken while abroad.
Degree Programmes Programme Requirements at:
(M.A. Honours): English Single Honours English: Level 1: 40 credits comprising EN1001 and EN1002 or EN1003 and EN1004; Level 2: 40 credits comprising: EN2003 and EN2004, with Grade 11 or better in both EN2003 and EN Level 3 : 90 or 120 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' Level 4 : 90 or 120 or 150 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' (depending upon the number of credits acquired at Level 3). Levels 3 & 4 choices are subject to the following provisions: (1): Students are required to take one module from Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), one module from Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360), and one module from Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4261 - EN4389), and must also take the Dissertation (Group D: EN4399). The balance of 'EN' Level 3 & 4 required credits are to be taken from any Level 3 and 4 modules offered by the School, (including those offered in Group E (EN3201-EN3250, EN4401-EN4495)). (2): Students may, with permission of both Heads of School, substitute, by means of ‘dip-across’, 30 Level 3 or 4 credits in another school for 30 Level 3 or 4 credits in the School of English, provided that the requirements indicated in the previous paragraph are not breached. Other Information: The total number of English credits required at Level 3 and 4 is 210 (where 30 'dip-across' credits are being offered) or 240 (where no 'dip-across' credits are being offered).
Degree Programmes Programme Requirements at:
(M.A. Honours): English and Ancient History†, Arabic, Art History, Biblical Studies, Classical Studies, Economics, Film Studies, French^, Geography, German^, Greek, Hebrew, Italian^, Latin, Management, Mediaeval History, Middle East Studies, Modern History, Philosophyß, Psychology, Russian,^, Scottish History, Social Anthropology, Spanish^, Theological Studies.* † - this combination is not available to entrants after 2004- 05
- Timetable clash means 2000 level English must be taken in First year to do this combination. ß Despite timetable clash, 1000 level English must be taken in First year to do this combination. ^ - available also as 'With Integrated Year Abroad Degrees' English Element of Joint Degree: Level 1: 40 credits comprising EN1001 and EN1002 or EN1003 and EN1004; Level 2: 40 credits comprising: EN2003 and EN2004, with Grade 11 or better in both EN2003 and EN Level 3: 60 or 90 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' Level 4: 30 or 60 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' (so arranged that the total of Level 3 and 4 credits in English modules does not exceed 150 credits and the total number of credits in the degree as a whole does not exceed 240). Levels 3 & 4 : choices are subject to the following provisions: Students are required to take one module from Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), or Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360), or Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4261 - EN4389), Their remaining ‘EN’ modules may be taken from any of the modules in groups A,B,C,D, and E (EN3201-EN3250, EN4401-EN4495). Other Information: Students whose English contribution to their joint- degree consists of 120 or 150 credits may (with permission of the Head of the School of English and the Head of the School in which the 'dip-across' module is taught) substitute up to 30 Level 3 or 4 credits in a third School or subject for 30 English credits at Level 3. In no case may the total of English credits at Level 3 and 4 fall below 90. In total (between the two Schools) 240 credits are required at Level 3 and Level 4 of which at least 90 credits must be achieved at Level 4. (M.A. Honours): Modern Languages with English^ French-German with English^ French-Italian with English^ French-Russian with English^ French-Spanish with English^ German-Italian with English^ German-Russian with English^ German-Spanish with English^ Italian-Russian with English^ Italian-Spanish with English^ Russian-Spanish with English^ ^ - available also as 'With Integrated Year Abroad Degrees' English element of Minor Degree: Level 1: 40 credits comprising EN1001 and EN1002 or EN1003 and EN Level 2: 40 credits comprising: EN2003 and EN2004, with Grade 11 or better in both EN2003 and EN Level 3: 30 or 60 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' Level 4: 30 or 60 credits in Level 3 or 4 modules prefixed 'EN' Other Information: A total of 90 English credits shall be taken at Levels 3 and 4. In total (between the two Schools) 240 credits are required at Level 3 and Level 4 of which at least 90 credits must be achieved at Level 4.
EN3112 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module consists of the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales for its individual tales and as a whole, with regard to such key features as genre, structure, mediaeval literary thought and gender. (Group A) Class Hour: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm Wednesday. Teaching: One lecture and one tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3113 Unreformed Scotland: Older Scots Literature to 1560 Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Description: This module introduces students to the late-mediaeval literature of pre-Reformation Scotland. A representative selection of Older Scots works from the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth centuries will be studied in the context of development in the language, literary culture and political climate of the period before the cultural watershed of the Reformation. Writers studied will include Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas and Lyndsay as well as some of their anonymous contemporaries. (Group A) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Tuesday and 2.00 pm Thursday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 70%, 2 Hour Examination = 30% EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The aim of the module is to develop an understanding of different versions of tragedy in the English Renaissance. (Group B) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Tuesday and 2.00 pm Thursday. Teaching: One lecture and one tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The aim of the module is to develop an understanding of some major literary texts of the Renaissance both in formalist terms and in terms of their historical and cultural context. Authors considered will include Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell and Milton. (Group B) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Tuesday and 12.00 noon Thursday. Teaching: One lecture and one tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3143 Shakespeare and the Beginnings of English Citizen Comedy Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to introduce students to the beginnings of English citizen drama in the mediaeval Mystery and Morality plays and then to consider later plays, including a number by Shakespeare, which take urban living for their setting and treat it in a range of modes. (Group B) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Monday and 10.00 am Friday. Teaching: One lecture and one tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module is designed to allow students to acquaint themselves with some of the principal novels of the period 1720-1840 together with the social background from which they derive. It will show the development of the novel form from its earliest stages to its establishment as the dominant literary form in the nineteenth century. It forms part of the critical and historical study of literature available to students in the School and the Faculty. (Group C) Class Hour: 11.00 am Tuesday and 12.00 noon Thursday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3162 Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society, 1789- 1805 Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module provides wide-ranging reading in the literature of the 1790s, with emphasis on the interaction between literature, history and political revolution during this decade. (Group C) Class Hour: 11.00 am Tuesday and 10.00 am Thursday. Teaching: Two hours per week, seminars, lectures, or tutorials. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810-1830) Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Availability: Not available 2008- 09 Description: This module aims to acquaint students with the principal poetic and non-fictional prose texts of the second generation of English Romantic writers. (Group C) Class Hour: 11.00 am Thursday and 11.00 am Friday. Teaching: Two hours per week: seminars, lectures or tutorials. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3201 Literary Theory Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module is designed to allow students to acquaint themselves with the principal critical theories which have underlain the production of Western literary work from its beginnings in Greek antiquity. It forms part of the study of literary history available to students in the School and the Faculty. (Group E) Class Hour: 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Friday. Teaching: One lecture and one tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN3206 Aspects of Modern Fiction Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to acquaint students with a good range of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century in English, from Joseph Conrad to William Golding. (Group E) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Monday and 12.00 noon Friday. Teaching: One lecture, one fortnightly seminar and one fortnightly tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3207 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to introduce students to English drama of the twentieth century and to issues in the study of drama of any period. (Group E) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Monday and 12.00 noon Wednesday Teaching: One lecture and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3208 Scottish Verse Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module provides a survey of Scottish poetry that includes some detailed engagement with major poets such as Dunbar, Burns and MacDiarmid, as well as the opportunity to work with living writers. (Group E) Class Hour: 10.00 am Wednesday and 10.00 am Friday. Teaching: One lecture/seminar and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3209 Scottish Fiction Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module provides an introduction to the tradition of Scottish fiction since Scott by means of close study of major works by leading Scottish novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Group E) Class Hour: 10.00 am Monday and 10.00 am Wednesday. Teaching: One lecture, one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN3210 Twentieth-Century American Drama Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to introduce students to ‘classic’ American plays of the twentieth century and to issues involved in the study of drama of any period. (Group E) Class Hour: 12.00 noon Tuesday and 12.00 noon Thursday. Teaching: Two one hour seminars. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN3211 Culture and Society in Modern Scotland Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: Scottish writing will be studied interactively with social and political history - for example, Modern Scottish Fiction studied in its artistic and cultural setting against a background of the economic and social conditions of urban and rural Scotland of the time. Literary texts and paintings, such as those of the Scottish Renaissance movement, will be examined in the light of Scottish artistic taste, the social and political conditions of the 1930s, and more recent writing, art and society. (Group E) Class Hour: 2.00 - 4.00 pm Monday. Teaching: One two hour seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4311 Old English Poetry Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN3012, EN Description: A wide-ranging study of Old English poetry, including heroic and elegiac works, wisdom- poetry, riddles, and religious verse. The texts chosen for study reflect the variety and quality of Old English poetry, and reveal ways in which traditional Germanic forms and themes were adapted within the literate Christian culture of Anglo-Saxon England. (Group A) Class Hour: 2.00 – 4.00 pm Monday. Teaching: Two tutorials. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in late Mediaeval English Literature Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The module examines the literature composed in England during the later Middle Ages with an emphasis on the years around 1400 - a period in which ideas of 'English literature' and the 'English language' can be seen under construction. The module offers an introduction to the genres of Middle English literature (particularly lyric poetry, romance and mystical writing). And it examines the interrelationship between textual practice and the cultural processes that generated imaginative writing. Special attention will be paid to the preoccupation of authors with a world which they saw as moving towards moral, political and religious complexity and uncertainty. Also to be explored will be the implication in turbulent ideological debate of the use of English in texts many of which are written for laypeople and women (Group A) Class Hour: 3.00 pm and 4.00 pm Monday. Teaching: Two hour seminar Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Availability: Not available 2008- 09 Anti-requisite: EN Description: Approaching literature by way of the law can transform our thinking about how stories are told, what constitutes 'proof' or 'probability', and how, imaginatively speaking, we gain access to, or reconstruct, the intentions of others (and even our own). In early modern England, the Latin rhetorical treatises used to teach students how to write compelling narratives and invent poetic arguments had originally been designed as treatises for advocates, so there was a very direct connection between legal and fictional techniques for telling stories and imagining motives and 'facts' (as disputed actions were called in English law). This module will explore works of drama and poetry that have strong affinities with legal forms of argument, and will encourage critical thinking about the relations between literary and legal ways of thinking in all periods. (Group B) Class Hour: 2.00 - 4.00 pm Monday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: Students will consider the dramatic rendering of romance material in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries alongside contemporary writing on dramatic theory and information about staging. About half the plays studied will be by Shakespeare. (Group B) Class Hour: 2.00 pm Monday and 11.00 am Wednesday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar/ tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Availability: Not available 2008- 09 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module will examine the six major novels of Jane Austen in the context of novels by three of her contemporaries, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Ann Radcliffe. It aims to encourage an understanding of Austen’s work in the light of Romantic period aesthetics and politics and to explore Austen’s affinities with and departures from the novelistic conventions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The module will also consider critical and theoretical approaches to Austen’s writing and selected contemporary translations of Austen’s work thorugh recent screen adaptations of her novels. (Group C) Class Hour: 10.00 am – 12.00 noon Monday. Teaching: One two hour seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The Enlightenment is a contested historical category, with arguments about literature and philosophy contributing to the definition of what enlightens a human subject. As a result of reading major texts of poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the Eighteenth Century, students on this module will be encouraged to explore the ways in which literature constructs relationships between the rational, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of human life. They will also be invited to ask how the physical, emotional and spiritual impinge upon rational accounts of enlightenment, and will study the way in which literary texts such as Rochester's poems, Pope's Essay on Man , and Sterne's Tristram Shandy complicate accounts of the age of reason given from the perspective of the history of ideas. (Group C) Class Hour: 2.00 pm Tuesday and 2.00 pm Thursday. Teaching: Two seminars Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The work of Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley is well known to students of Romanticism – but what of their female contemporaries? This module explores the richly varied and often exciting fiction, poetry and non-fictional prose emanating from the pen of women writers in the aftermath of the French Revolution, showing how a ‘revolution in female manners’ sprang out of the momentous changes of post-1789 European society. (Group C) Class Hour: 2.00 pm Tuesday and 10.00 am Friday. Teaching: One lecture/seminar and one tutorial/seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4399 Dissertation in English Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Prerequisites: A pass in any 3000-level English module. Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module provides an opportunity to undertake a sustained piece of independent work, on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with a member of the School, leading to the presentation of an essay not more than 10,000 words in length. The dissertation may consist of a critical discussion or of a project based on the extensive collection of electronic texts currently available to the School. It will involve personal reading and research and will develop a range of skills, including investigative reading, use of information technology, the exploitation of library and internet resources, and the organisation and presentation of evidence and argument. Guidance will be given on scholarly conventions and basic research methods. (Group D) Class Hour: 9.00 am Friday. Assessment: Dissertation = 100% Re-Assessment: 3 Hour Examination = 100%
EN4404 Shakespeare and Film Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Availability: Not available 2008- 09 Anti-requisite: EN Description: A study of filmed versions of Shakespeare's plays (including adaptations) from the silent era to the present, including an introductory exploration of film history, theory and practice. There will be a film viewing each week and students will have the opportunity to map out a design for filming a scene from one of the plays as part of their assessment. (Group E) Class Hour: Tuesday 3.00 pm, plus film viewing. Teaching: One lecture plus one film viewing session. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 60%, 2 Hour Examination = 40% EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module provides an introduction to contemporary English-language poetry written in Great Britain and Ireland; examines some of its important forebears; and gives an overview of the present state of the art in the constituent nations of the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland.(Group E) Class Hour: 9.00 - 11.00 am Tuesday. Teaching: Two seminars. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4406 Contemporary Fiction Credits: 3 0.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN3041 in the same semester, EN Description: This module is designed to explore the range and diversity of British and American fiction of the last two decades, including examples of the short story, and to meet the challenge of entering into debate in areas where there is no body of settled opinion. Texts selected will vary from year to year. Students will typically examine from seven to nine works, looking at both thematic and formal issues. (Group E) Class Hour: 11 .00 am – 1.00 pm Monday. Teaching: One 2 hour seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module will analyse social, cultural and literary formations through the medium of popular fiction. It offers a contrast to the twentieth century canon, and students will be encouraged to interrogate prevailing attitudes towards and representations of gender and sexuality. The module will also focus on the reappropriation of the genre by contemporary gay, lesbian and feminist writers. Among authors studied will be Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Ian Rankin. (Group E) Class Hour: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm Wednesday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN4408 Science Fiction Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module introduces students to some of the key themes and concerns of modern science fiction via the study of selected key works from both the British and American tradition, including novels, short stories and critical writings. Engaging in close reading and with contemporary theoretical approaches such as Marxism, Feminism and genre theory, students will study the literary, theoretical, social and political contexts and consequences of textual explorations of issues such as: evolution and devolution; utopias and dystopias; man and machine; aliens, invasion and colonization; alternate histories; apocalypse; race, sex and gender, and cyberspace. (Group E) Class Hour: 3.00 - 5.00 pm Thursday Teaching: One 2 hour seminar Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4409 Modern American Drama Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to introduce students to recent and contemporary American plays and to issues involved in the study of drama of any period. It is offered as a complement to EN3065 in which plays from the early and middle years of the twentieth century are studied. (Group E) Class Hour: 11.00 am Tuesday and 12.00 noon Thursday. Teaching: One 2 hour seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4410 Women, Writing and Representation in the Second World War Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Availability: not available 2008- 09 Anti-requisite: EN Description: This module aims to consider both women’s literary responses to the Second World War and the contexts within which those responses were formulated. It will examine the impact of conflict on constructions of masculinity and femininity and explore the contrasting strategies through which writers made sense of the radical dislocations of war. Issues considered will include the construction of national identities, the conflict between pacifism and patriotism, the implications of fascism, the guilt of the survivor and the paradoxical liberation sometimes associated with war. The module will examine a variety of genres including poetry, fiction, journalism and autobiography and will also explore the representation of women in film and advertising. (Group E) Class Hour: 3.00 – 5.00 pm Tuesday. Teaching: One lecture, one seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4411 D.H. Lawrence Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: A range of D.H. Lawrence's works – novels and shorter fiction, plays, poems and non-fiction prose – will be studied in their literary, social and historical contexts. Students will be encouraged in the close study of the chosen texts, and required to give spoken presentations on selected topics in relation to these texts as well as to write essays and examination answers on them. (Group E) Class Hour: 10.00 am – 12.00 noon Monday. Teaching: Two hour seminar. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
EN4416 Virginia Woolf Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: The writings of Virginia Woolf have had a major impact on the development of the English novel this century. This module involves detailed study of Woolf’s most important fictional texts, and also considers her contribution to literary criticism and feminism through readings of selected extracts from her essays and diaries. The development of critical and communication skills through written and oral assignments will be an integral part of the module. (Group E) Class Hour: 3.00 - 5.00 pm Thursday. Teaching: One lecture and one seminar/ tutorial. Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50% EN4417 Creative Writing Credits: 30.0 Semester: 1 Anti-requisite: EN Description: A persuasive school of thought believes that the study of poetry can be greatly enhanced by learning how to write in such long-lived and basic forms as the sonnet as well as acquiring a practical knowledge of versification. Similarly, an understanding of fiction can be enhanced by an awareness of different approaches to narrative, dialogue and characterisation. Poetry and fiction will therefore be studied from these practical and technical perspectives in alternate weeks. (Group E) Class Hour: 2.00 pm Monday, and 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Wednesday. Teaching: One seminar and one tutorial Assessment: Continuous Assessment =100% EN4418 American Poetry since 1950 Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Description: This module provides an introduction to the contemporary poetry of the United States, examining some of its important predecessors, recent poetic theory, ideas related to its regional poetries, ways in which poets reflect and engage with the contemporary world, and in which they regard their roles and activities. Through a close study of a number of poets, a sense will be gained of the role and importance of U.S. contemporary poetry and its relation to the broader tradition. Class Hour: 9.00 - 11.00 am Tuesday. Teaching: One seminar and one tutorial Assessment: Continuous Assessment =100% EN4419 American Fiction: Self and Nation, 1865 - 1939 Credits: 30.0 Semester: 2 Description: This module provides an introduction to American fiction published between the end of the Civil War and the start of the Second World War. The module encourages students to evaluate the relationship between historical events (including Reconstruction, the 'Jazz Age', the Depression) and American literary movements and genres including the romance, the realist novel, the 'lost generation', the Harlem Renaissance and Southern Gothic. The module is centrally concerned with the conception and representation of American identity in fiction, and with heterogeneous definitions of 'the American novel'. These topics are considered in relation to the historical, social and geographical contexts of ten set texts. Class Hour: 2.00 and 3.00 pm Friday Teaching: One seminar and one tutorial Assessment: Continuous Assessment = 50%, 2 Hour Examination = 50%
