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

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’

PDF Download - Lesson Overview 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 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

PDF Download - The Apathetic Fallacy - Lesson Overview 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

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’

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PDF Download What does Barthes mean by ‘myth is a type of speech’? In what ways is myth political (or depoliticized)? How does myth relate to history and nature? What is the function of modern myth?

Contains PDF Lesson Presentation Presentation Notes Student workbook In Unit 1 Lesson 1 we will be looking closely at • Who is William Shakespeare? • Shakespeare’s Life • Facts and Rumours • The Globe Theatre