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 106-256 Literary Classics

Note

Available as 106-356 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Ken Ruthven

Semester

1

Contact

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject provides opportunities not only to study various texts commonly regarded as classics of English literature but also to enquire into how they came to achieve such eminence. Students who complete this subject successfully will understand why literary classics attract competing interpretations; understand why 'literature' and 'literary merit' are contested categories in the history of writing; learn how to critique the politics of reputation-mongering and its institutional consequences; develop a critical understanding of both right-wing defences of literary canons and left-wing critiques of them.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Course reader available from the department.

  • J Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Norton.
  • E Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Norton.
  • L Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Norton.
  • T S Eliot, The Waste Land. Faber.
  • J Joyce, Ulysses. Oxford.
  • W Shakespeare, Hamlet. Norton.
  • J Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Norton.
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