Term 1

01 Oct. Introduction (Mike Niblett) Week 1

08 Oct. Goethe, Faust Part I (Nick Lawrence) Week 2

15 Oct. Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, African (Mike Niblett) Week 3Link opens in a new window

22 Oct. Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"; Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" and "The Mask of Anarchy"; Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman" (Stacey McDowell) Week 4Link opens in a new window

29 Oct. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Mike Niblett) Week 5Link opens in a new window

12 Nov. Baudelaire, from "The Painter of Modern Life"; "The Swan," from Fleurs du Mal; "The Eyes of the Poor," "Lost Halo," "Bash the Poor!" from Spleen de Paris; Rimbaud, "The Drunken Boat" (Nick Lawrence) Week 7Link opens in a new window

19 Nov. Ibsen, A Doll's House (Michael Meeuwis) Week 8Link opens in a new window

26 Nov. Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (Bushra Mahzabeen)

03 Dec. Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Christine Emmett)

Term 2

07 Jan. Tagore, The Home and the World (Mike Niblett)

14 Jan. Kafka,The Metamorphosis (Andy Irwin)

21 Jan. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (Myka Tucker-Abramson)

28 Jan. Brecht,Mother Courage and Her Children (Matt Franks)

04 Feb. Silvina Ocampo, "The Impostor" (Mike Niblett)

18 Feb. Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Mike Niblett)

25 Feb. Lispector, The Hour of the Star (Maddie Sinclair)

04 Mar. Armah, The Beautyful Ones... (Mike Niblett)

11 Mar. Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven (Mike Niblett)

Term 3

Weeks 1 - 3: Satrapi, Persepolis; a post-1989 text chosen by your seminar tutor