Doing English: Week 5 - Allusion and Voice

Weds 12th November, LT2, 11am

11.oo - Mr Walker, 'Allusion and the Tempest I: Theory and practice'
11.30 - Mr Roebuck, 'Allusion and the Tempest II: Rewritings'

These two interlinking lectures will look at the concept of allusion, focussing on examples that relate to Shakespeare's The Tempest – one of the core texts for the Mods Introduction to Literary Studies Paper. They will also be of particular interest to students working towards the FHS paper on Shakespeare. Various critical debates around the term will be considered, such as its relation to theories of influence and intertextuality. But the main focus will be on how allusion may be used practically as a critical tool. This will be explored through a wide range of texts that allude to The Tempest, including T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.

12.00 - Ms Vanhensbergen, 'Female voice: women writers and the early modern'

12.30 - Mr Blades, 'Dialect and poetry: Heaney and Harrison'