Unit name | Critical Issues |
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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 |
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.