The topics in this unit will vary from time to time and reflect the research interests of staff. Students should consult with the Department for current details of offerings available this year. The offerings listed below are merely a rough guide, since these offerings are not confirmed until early in the year.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
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| Staff Contact: |
Dr Rosemary Colmer, Dr Robyn McCallum |
| Prerequisites: |
8cp from 200-level ENGL units
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Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of English |
Dreams and the Imaginery
| Staff Contact: | Dr Antonia Harbus |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: |
[Unknown]
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This unit examines the way imaginary worlds have been created and used in English literary texts from the Middle Ages through to the end of the Early Modern period (900-1700). It focuses in particular on the varying presentations of the imaginary in dreams, visions, legends, utopias, myths and fantasies in English prose, poetic, and dramatic texts. Students will be encouraged to consider the varying textual and reading strategies employed in the creation and reception of different textual modes such as epic, romance, dream vision, drama, and prose narrative. Topics of discussion will include: oppositions made between the real and the imaginary; the rhetorical or polemical potential of the fantastic; myths and national identity; orality and literacy; the reception of texts; and symbolism and figurative language.
From Doll to Cyborg
| Staff Contact: | Dr McCallum, Professor Stephens |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: |
[Unknown]
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Throughout the history of children's literature and, more recently, children's film, toys have been depicted as taking on a life of their own-a life which sometimes reflects, interrogates, or carnivalises human experience of the world. This unit examines the various uses made in literature and film of manufactured, surrogate human characters, ranging from dolls and stuffed toys to robots and cyborgs.
Popular Theatre as Mirror, Polemic and Satire
| Staff Contact: | Dr Colmer |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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[Unknown]
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Examines material from classical, medieval, renaissance and contemporary periods in terms of content, form and function to examine the possible relationships between theatre and audiences. How does theatre reflect, criticise and instruct? Is all theatre of necessity popular theatre? How do we differentiate between theatre and performance arts in general? How does theatre relate to performance space? In what sense are masques, processions, carousels, street entertainment viewed as 'theatre'? How do concepts of theatre change from one period to another?
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