Doing English: Week 4 - Genres

Weds 5th November, LT2, 11am

11.oo - Ms Caughey, 'Medieval masculinities and genre'#

11.30 - Ms Johnson, 'The modernist long poem'

12.00 - Ms Farkas, 'Modernism and the genres of theatre'

12.30 - Ms McHugh, 'The epic and the early Stewarts'

This lecture will introduce Mods students to the Early Stewart kings of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Scotland, and the two epic poems about the Wars of Independence connected with them - John Barbour's "The Brus" and Blind Harry's "The Wallace". We will consider how these poems bear out, as well as depart from, the features of epic poetry and how they anticipate later developments in Scottish poetry.

The lecture will be a useful introduction to fifteenth-century Scottish poetry for those students interested in taking the Scottish Literature Pre-1600 paper in FHS.