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Lecture List 2024-25

Term 1

01 Oct. Introduction (Mike Niblett)

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

15 Oct. Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, African (Mike Niblett)

22 Oct. Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"; Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" and "The Mask of Anarchy"; Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman" (Stacey McDowell)

29 Oct. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Mike Niblett)

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)

19 Nov. Ibsen, A Doll's House (Elizabeth Sharrock)

26 Nov. Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (Michael Gardiner)

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

Term 2

07 Jan. 2022. 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