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Approaches to English Literature
UndergraduateMAQ-ENGX1202019
Course information for 2019 intake
Explore the pathways you can take when analysing English literature. Consider characterisation, genre and suspense. Think about a writing's context and authorial intent. Devour short stories, plays and critical texts as you broaden your studies.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- -
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Approaches to English Literature
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies
- understand and describe sites of meaning in various narrative modes
- apply understanding of narrative techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations
- engage in informed critical discussion on subject content with peers and teachers, to entertain others' points of view, and to argue a critical position.
- Introduction
- Context, Author and the Reader
- Reading Poetry
- Narration and Textual Analysis
- Genre
- Essay Writing
- Story and Discourse
- Narrative Time
- Plot and Suspense
- Focalisation and Characterisation
- The Novel
- David Malouf Ransom
- Library Resources and Research in English Studies
- Intertextuality
- Pre-modern Narrative Modes
- Arthurian Romance
- Shakespeare and the Canon
- Macbeth: Language, Drama and Gender
- The Short Story in Context
- Gender and Autonomy
- Addressing the Reader
- Ways of Reading
- Realism
- The Narrative Self
- Sites of meaning
- Overview
This subject was previously known as ENG110 Approaches to English Literature.
This subject develops skills at university level in critical reading, textual analysis and writing about literary texts. It equips students with a range of key terms, concepts and practices for further studies in English literature or for any text-based discipline. Short literary texts and weekly critical studies provide focal points for developing detailed and informed ways of interpreting different kinds of narratives. Readings and classes treat themes such as identity and memory, and explore narrative concepts such as genre, characterisation and representing the imaginary in texts.
- Assignment 1 (5%)
- Assignment 2 (10%)
- Non-Invigilated Exam (40%)
- Online Participation (20%)
- Research Essay (25%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
one of
- MUR-BAR100-Academic Learning Skills
- SWI-COM10006-Academic Literacies: Learning and Communication Practice
MUR-ISU110 (Not currently available)
MUR-ISU103 (Not currently available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-ENG110 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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