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.

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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)

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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

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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

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PDF download 18th Century Gender Expectations Exemplar Essay Literary Criticism Exemplar essay How do constructions of EITHER masculinity OR femininity in literature of the period conform to or resist Eighteenth-Century gender expectations? Word count 2305

PDF Download Overview: How do power and knowledge interact in Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’? What does it mean for gender to be performative, according to Butler? What connections can be made between the goblins, the marketplace, and the Victorian marriage market?