Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate an ability to identify and analyse recurring generic tropes of narrative, language and imagery within a wide range of texts from across a broad historic period.
2. Develop the ability to read and write on a wide variety of texts through different theoretical, thematic and generic lenses.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of historic and contemporary addiction discourses, and an ability to situate literary texts within their historical contexts.
4. Cultivate the ability to construct original and insightful comparative analyses of addiction narratives and conceptual theories.