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 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

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 Overview Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004: A Select Bibliography What is Structuralism? What is Derrida’s Problem with Structuralism? What is the Problem with Western Metaphysics? Who are the Precursors of Derrida’s Deconstruction? Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 Freud and Nietzsche: Derrida’s ‘Advance’ Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976 Edmund Husserl, 1859-1938 What is the Problem with Speech and Writing? What is Logocentrism? What is the trace? Or, what is différance? What is Derrida’s Problem with Rousseau? What is Grammatology? What is the Problem with ‘What is…?’ Questions? How can Deconstruction be used in Literary Criticism?

PDF Download Overview Franco Moretti’s Pact with the Devil Alternatives to Close Reading Surface Reading: Problems with ‘Symptomatic Reading’ Surface Reading: Freud, Marx, Jameson Surface Reading: What Surface? Post-Critical Reading: The Limits of Critique Post-Critical Reading: 5 Qualities of Critique Postcritical Reading: Affinities, Actors, Affect

PDF Download Overview - Presentation Introducing Postcolonial Critical Theory Spivak’s ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ Mobilizing postcolonial theory: ‘Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism’

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 Overview Sexual / Textual Politics What is a woman? Waves Gilbert and Gubar Monster v Angel Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Intersectionality Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë Masculinity in Wide Sargasso Sea

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 Reading Richard: Context Richard and History Richard and Tragedy Machiavellian Richard

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

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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: 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 What is the gothic? Extract Examples Gothic Tropes

In what ways, and with what effects, does Zofloya challenge the typical gender distinctions of Gothic fiction? Exemplar Essay PDF Download Word Count 1636

‘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 Discuss the representation of madness The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Hyde and The Yellow Wallpaper. Essay Exemplar

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