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Subject details
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- • Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the traveller's tale meets the prose romance.
- • Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: the eighteenth-century postmodern.
- • Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility: irony, moral instruction and the marriage plot.
- • Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: realism, sensationalism and the Victorian plot.
- • Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse: time and the subconscious.
- • Toni Morrison's Beloved: American hauntings.
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Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 30 credit points of Level one subjects.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
In this subject you will explore the connections between the novel and modernity. Following the novel from its invention in the 17th century, this subject will investigate how novels have been sites of experimentation from the genre's beginnings right up to the present moment, and we will analyse the ways in which the genre understands itself as being "novel" (that is, new) in its engagement with social and cultural change. Students will hone their understanding of textual analysis, literary history and the role of structure and historical and political context in making a novel's meaning. Students completing this subject will encounter a range of novels from a range of literary periods, and will develop an understanding of the way in which the genre has developed over time. By closely analysing how authors from different cultural moments have represented and changed the worlds they live in, this subject will enrich students' understanding of how writing, critical reading and literary analysis are part of global citizenship.
- Textual analysis (1000 words) Close analysis of a passage selection. (25%)
- Research essay (2000 words) Research essay comparing two novels. (50%)
- Oral presentation (1000 words equivalent) Critical appraisal of a secondary source to be delivered in class or uploaded to LMS as a video or podcast. Written script to be submitted for assessment. (25%)
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