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 106-039 Literary Classics

Note

Formerly available as 106-256/356. Students who have completed 106-256/356 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Ken Ruthven

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

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; and develop a critical understanding of both right-wing defences of literary canons and left-wing critiques of them.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 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.
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet. Norton.
  • J Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Norton.
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