Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the ways in which literary genre is defined;
2. Consider the questions appropriate to the study of genre;
3. Examine texts in terms of language, structure and, with drama, performance;
4. Show an awareness of changes to, and the evolution of, specific genres;
5. Present ideas orally and engage in discussions in Workshops;
6. Write a scholarly essay which is appropriate for Stage 1 students of English.
Indicative Module Content:
The Penguin Book of English Poetry, ed. Paul Keegan (Penguin, 2009)
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Individual set texts for drama:
Sophocles, Antigone (translated by Marianne McDonald, Nick Hern Books, 2015)
William Shakespeare, As You Like It, (RSC Macmillan Series, Palgrave)
Noni Stapleton, Charolais, Sonya Kelly, Noni Stapleton, Margaret McAuliffe, The Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon (Methuen Drama, 2017)
Bertolt Brecht, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (transl. by John Willet, London: Methuen Drama, 2002.)