Literary Classics: Texts and Traditions (ENGL1800)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2024
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities Arts Social Science
School
Communication & Arts School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 1.5 Hours/ Week
Tutorial 1.5 Hours/ Week
Assessment methods
Close Reading Essay
Creative Writing exercise or Abstract and Annotated Bibliography
Research Essay
Course enquiries
Dr Victoria Bladen
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
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Course description
This course explores the idea of a "literary classic", while introducing students to the critical thinking and research skills essential for literary studies. The set texts comprise a range of canonical texts from antiquity to the 20th century: excerpts from Ovid's Metamorphoses (8CE); Beowulf (10th-11th century CE); Shakespeare's Hamlet (century. 1600); Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813); a selection of country house and Romantic poetry; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847); Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925); George Orwell's 1984 (1949); and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987). The course equips students to analyse texts in terms of relevant historical contexts, theory, genre and thematic frameworks including gender, race and class. Completing the course will provide students with key skills in close reading, research techniques and essay writing, giving them a solid methodological basis for further studies in the humanities.
