Course image EN3E9:States of Damage: Twenty-First Century US Writing and Culture
2023/24
Course image EN3G1:Queer and There: Queer Theory and the History of Sexuality in the Global Context
2023/24
Course image EN3M1:Text/Styles: Fashion and Literature
2023/24
Course image EN3M2:Global Literary Radicalisms: Proletarian Literature from the Russian Revolution to Anti-colonial Resistance - 3rd year
2023/24
Course image EN3M3:Modernity at Sea: Indian Ocean Literatures
2023/24
Course image EN3M4:Sick Imagination: Disability, Illness and the Critical Medical Humanities
2023/24
Course image EN9A3:The Caribbean: Reading the World - Ecology
2023/24
Course image EN9B5:World Literature in the Anthropocene
2023/24
Course image EN9D1:Yiddish Women in World Literature
2023/24
Course image EN121/EN2J5/EN3J5:Medieval and Early Modern Literature
2023/24
This module will study a number of works of medieval and early modern literature in the context of contemporary beliefs and historical and social developments. The module will be taught by means of lectures on the historical, cultural and critical context; seminars to discuss particular texts; and (in weeks 2-5 of term 1 only) supplementary classes to help develop your skills in reading texts written in earlier forms of English.
Works studied include: The Canterbury Tales; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Book of Margery Kempe; travel writing; poems by Sidney, Spenser, and Mary Wroth; and medieval and early modern drama.