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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Andrew McCann

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (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 this status. 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

A subject reader will be available.

  • J Austen, Persuasion. Oxford World's Classics.
  • E Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Oxford.
  • J Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Oxford World's Classics.
  • T S Eliot, The Waste Land. Faber.
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet. Oxford.
  • O Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest. Oxford World's Classics.
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