Unit information: Shakespeare and Literary Relations in 2013/14

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Unit name Shakespeare and Literary Relations
Unit code ENGLM3011
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Dr. Lyon
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None
Co-requisites

None
School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This Unit examines the various languages, vocabularies and theories which describe literary relations. It also involves a number of case studies, with Shakespeare as focus.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Participants will attain to a good knowledge of particular instances of literary relations. More importantly, they will be aware of the range and divergence of the ways in which literary relations are discussed, and will have some knowledge of the differing aesthetic, philosophical and political assumptions underlying such divergences.

Teaching Information

7 x 2-hour seminar, 1 reading week, 11 Consultation Hours

Assessment Information

1 essay of 4,000 words

Reading and References

  • Shakespeare, Works
  • Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence, 2nd Edn (1997)
  • M Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (1981)
  • R Barthes, S/Z (1990)
  • Graham Allen, Intertextuality (2000)

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