By the end of this module participants are expected to be able to

• participate actively in advanced postgraduate seminar discussion
• apply techniques of close textual analysis
• relate critical theory to their reading of literary texts
• write academic English prose fluently
• research and plan a long essay
• sustain a structured argument
• deploy the apparatus of scholarly presentation accurately

Set indicative reading

(Please purchase the editions specified below)

• Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (any edition)
• Kate Chopin, The Awakening: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Nancy A. Walker (Bedford: St. Martin’s P)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ed. Paul H. Fry (Bedford, St. Martin’s P)
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Susanne L. Wofford (Bedford, St. Martin's P)

Assessment and submission dates

 

Assessment type	Length (words)	Submission date
Oral presentation	15 minutes	During the seminar
Non-assessed essay	1,500-2,000	Monday, term 1 week 6
Essay ONE	1,500-2,000	Monday, term 1 week 11
Essay TWO	2,000-3,000	Monday, term 2 week 1
FINAL essay	5,000 words	Monday, term 3 week 1