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The Ground Aslant : An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry edited by Harriet Tarlo
Reflection on Creative Writing Poetry Exemplar Essay
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‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with his Poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Marinere.’
Essay Exemplar
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‘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
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Richard and History
Richard and Tragedy
Machiavellian Richard
Approaches: Feminism; New Historicism; Cultural Materialism; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Disability Studies – rejecting Tillyard’s Elizabethan World Picture
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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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The hauntings of gothic romantic poetry
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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’
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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
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Lesson - The Rise and Fall of the Reading Public
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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
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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
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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’
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What do you understand by the term ‘author’?
What do you understand by the term ‘work’?
The Author Function
What idea do you have of what an ‘author’ is or does?
Barthes’s ‘The Death of the Author’
Barthes and language
Our ideas of ‘author’ and ‘reader’ are historically and culturally determined, and are subject to change.
Language is a system of signs used to produce a facsimile, or simulacrum, of the real world either in speech or writing.
Language, and the meanings associated with words, are all recycled by writers. There is, therefore, no ‘author’, or single ‘authority’ in a text.
Instead, there is Foucault’s ‘author function’, an idea or process which is socially constructed and which transforms (by ‘superstition’ for Barthes or ‘magic’ for Foucault’) a person into an Author: it is a role or an idea, not a person.
The Love Song of F. Raymond Leavis
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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
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W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley: Select Bibliographies
Part One: The Affective Fallacy
Against Affective Criticism
Distinctions between Affective Critics
Hamlet and His Problems: The Objective Correlative
Poetry, Emotions, Objects
The Fallacy of the Affective Fallacy
Part Two: The Intentional Fallacy
The Way of the World
Wimsatt and Beardsley’s Axioms
Intentionality and Romanticism
Eliot’s Intentions in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Part Three: The Apathetic Fallacy