Unit information: Critical Issues in 2008/09

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Unit name Critical Issues
Unit code ENGL10007
Credit points 30
Level of study C/4
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Professor. Putter
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

This unit is normally only available to students on a Single Honours English programme

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit will provide a wide-ranging introduction to the conceptual issues involved in literary criticism. Topics studied may include: language, readers and reading, the author, the uncanny, narrative, character, figures and tropes, comedy, the tragic, history, the subject, sexual difference, God, ideology, post colonialism, nationalism, metafiction, endings.