Doing English - Schedule for Michaelmas Term 2008

Lectures will take place on Wednesdays at 11am, in Lecture Theatre 2 at the English Faculty, from 2nd to 7th Week.


Weds 22 October (wk 2): Text Matters

11am Ms da Costa – Medieval manuscripts: Why they matter
11.30 Mr Mctague – The materiality of texts
12 Mr Whalen – Genetic criticism

Weds 29 October (wk 3): Authorship

11am Ms Robinson – Translation, adaptation and the medieval author
11.30 Mr Salamone – Reconstructing the early modern author
12 Mr Farrell – Anxiety and authorship in the romantic novel

Weds 5 November (wk 4): Genres

11am Ms Caughey – Medieval masculinities and genre
11.30 Ms Johnson – The modernist long poem;
12 Ms Farkas – Modernism and the genres of theatre
12.30 Ms McHugh – The epic and the early Stewarts

Weds 12 November (wk 5): Allusion and voice

11am Mr Walker – Allusion and the Tempest I: Theory and practice
11.30 Mr Roebuck – Allusion and the Tempest II: Rewritings
12 Ms Vanhensbergen – Female voice: women writers and the early modern
12.30 Mr Blades – Dialect and poetry: Heaney and Harrison

Weds 19 November (wk 6): Close reading and form

11am Ms Martin – Close reading: Ideas and ideals
11.30 Ms Green – Power and the sonnet: The case of Keats and the Elgin Marbles
12 Mr Tate – Reading poetic form

Weds 26 November (wk 7): Critical departures

11am Mr Macfadzean – Deconstructive reading
11.30 Ms Dunleavy – Introduction to queer theory
12 Mr Williams – Orientalism and postcolonialism