Short Essay Exemplar - 405 words PDF Download What do you think Foucault means by the author’s ‘signature’?

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Researching the craft of an established screenwriter of your choice. Creative Writing Peaky Blinders Script Analysis Exemplar Essay Exemplar Essay Word Document Word Count - 1976

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The Ground Aslant : An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry edited by Harriet Tarlo Reflection on Creative Writing Poetry Exemplar Essay PDF Download Word Count 1166

‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with his Poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Marinere.’ Essay Exemplar PDF Download Word Count - 2869

PDF Download Overview ‘What we know and what we thought we knew’ about gothic romantic women poets Defining Romantic ‘communities’ ‘Unsex’d females’: hyenas, old bishops and domestic goddesses Women Poets and Gothic poetry Some questions to think about: Critical approaches to Romanticism, Gothic Poetry and Gender

PDF Download Overview Richard and History Richard and Tragedy Machiavellian Richard Approaches: Feminism; New Historicism; Cultural Materialism; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Disability Studies – rejecting Tillyard’s Elizabethan World Picture

PDF Download Overview Examine cultural, social and historical contexts out of which this poetry arises Consider some of the issues that arise out of these poems Attempt some close reading of the poems

PDF Download The hauntings of gothic romantic poetry Overview In what ways, and with what effects, might we consider Gothic poetry to be ‘haunted’? We’ll be focusing on the voices to be found in poetry, and we’ll be thinking about how Gothic poetry might be ‘haunted’ by history. We’ll also be considering whether Gamer’s Anglo-centric definition of Gothic is adequate, or whether Gothic means different things in different places, in different nations.

PDF Download Overview: Gothic Romanticism could (should?) be considered as an aesthetic, rather than a genre. The Gothic was extremely popular with readers, and extremely unpopular with critics. There was money to be made from writing Gothic. Gothic Romantic poetry explores the relationship between modernity and the past, and between rational and supernatural, and does these things through various means: form, meter, language, style, appearance. There is often a tension between popularity and ‘seriousness’ Gothic and ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)

PDF Download Overview Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Foucault’s methods: archaeology Foucault’s methods: genealogy Power/knowledge Sovereign power and biopower Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) The Panopticon Dave Eggers, The Circle (2013)‘Sharing is caring’ The History of Sexuality (1976)

PDF Download - Lesson Overview David Lodge, 1935 - : A Select Bibliography Language of Fiction: Close Reading Poetry and Prose Language of Fiction: Translation and Bad Writing Language of Fiction: These Words in This Order Language of Fiction: Particularity Nice Work: ‘Semi-what?’ ‘Semiotics. The Study of Signs’

PDF Download Overview Ecocriticism vs Postmodernism What is ecocriticism? Postmodern Ecology: Deep Ecology Postmodern Ecology: Ecofeminism, Eco-Marxism, and Heideggerian Ecophilosophy Apocalypse The Trouble with Apocalypse Beyond Apocalypse: Geocriticism Doreen Massey, 1944-2016: A Select Bibliography Space, Place and Gender Space, Place, and Gender in The Importance of Being Earnest

PDF Download Lesson - The Rise and Fall of the Reading Public Overview Q. D. Leavis, 1906-1981: A Select Bibliography What is a Bestseller? Q D Leavis and the Bestseller Leavis and the Reading Public Leavis vs the Bestseller The Leavises and the Eighteenth Century Leavis and the Eighteenth-Century Bestseller The Growth of the Reading Public Jane Austen (1775-1817), A Select Bibliography Leavis: from Eliza Haywood to Jane Austen Jane Austen’s ‘Love and Freindship’ The Disintegration of the Reading Public

Less of a Lecture and More of an Entangling - Lesson/Lecture Overview The Lecturee The Mock Student The Implied Student The Ideal Student The Real Student How do literary texts represent readers? Learning Communities Reader-Response vs Formalism How does reader-response differ from formalism? Reading Paradise Lost How Big is Satan’s Spear? Surprized by Sin Why Read Paradise Lost? How does Milton represent the reader in Paradise Lost? The Failing Critic in The Figure in the Carpet The Implied Reader in The Figure in the Carpet Towards the Death of the Author How does James represent the reader / critic in The Figure in the Carpet?

(Im)Practical Criticism - lesson PDF Download I A Richards, 1893-1979 I A Richards’ Hieroglyph Visual Sensations Tied Images Free Imagery Impulses and References Emotions and Attitudes The Neurology of Literary Criticism Practical Criticism: Poem VIII Close Reading: Stanza 1 Close Reading: Stanza 2 Close Reading: Stanza 3 Close Reading: Poem VIII Close Reading: Rhyme Scheme Impractical Criticism?

Once Upon a Time: Eight Stories about Narrative PDF Download - Lesson Overview Pat Hutchin’s Rosie’s Walk The Ontogeny of Narrative Five Propositions Homer, The Odyssey (transl. Robert Fagles) The Oral Tradition Mimesis The Brothers Grimm, ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’ Folk and Fairy Tales and Formalism Against Formalism’s Dual Approach The Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Plot, Story and Narrative James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Modernism John Barth, ‘Life-Story’ Metafiction The Postmodern Condition Graham Gibbs, ‘Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing’

The Love Song of F. Raymond Leavis PDF Download - Lesson Overview F R Leavis vs Mass Civilization Culture vs Civilization Leavis, Minority Culture, and Literary Criticism Leavis, Teaching, and Collaboration Collaboration vs Discipleship Leavis and the Great Tradition T. S. Eliot and Tradition The Mind of the Poet and the Shred of Platinum Tradition and T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot on Civilization and Culture…… and Savagery Leavis vs Eliot Eliot’s England: East Coker Leavis vs Eliot’s England Leavis’s England Literary Englands