106-445 Literature and Context

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This subject studies a range of English poetry, prose and drama from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, focusing on ways in which it has been taken to be 'representative' or 'subversive'. Drawing on both analytical and writing skills, it invites an understanding of pressures and problems involved in notions of canon, period, historical 'background', and 'literary movement'.

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Prescribed Texts:

• F Kermode et. al. eds, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, vol 2.
• T S Eliot, Selected Prose
• F R Leavis, Revaluation
• R Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950
• D Lodge, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• P Widdowson ed, Re-Reading English