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[align=left] The course has the following aim
A: To introduce the student to three current approachees to literature
- through the concept of genre (The Realist Novel)
- through period studies (Romantic Writings)
- through the idea of a great author in the canon of literature (Shakespeare and the Canon).
B: To introduce the student to a wide range of litery texts in English
C: To prepare the student for the study of literature at more advanced levels, so that, if he/she wishes, he/she will be able to proceed to study literature courses at higher levels
Course Guide
Introduction
All material is extracted from the A210 Course Guide and Media Notes prepared by Jessica Davies
Welcome to A210, Approaching Literature. We hope that you will enjoy the course and the wide variety of literary texts that you will study through the year. The course is designed to be interesting in its own right, but it is also a course that we think will give you the skills necessary for further study of literature at a higher level. It is a core course for the award of the BA in English Language and Literature
Course structure
A210 is divided into three blocks, each of which concentrates on a different approach to the study of literature. The structure of the block is summarized below. *** of the blocks include at least one text that we refer to as a 'discussion' text, that is, a text which is related to but different from the others and which we hope will provoke discussion because of this difference. In The Realist Novel, for example, we have included the study of Jane Eyre, a novel which has elements that most readers would deem to be far from 'realistic'.
The Realist Novel
This block focuses on genre, which is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts, taking the nineteenth-century realist novel as a well-known and accessible example of a literary genre. The block considers *** aspects to genre as a defining category, the formal and the historical. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is the discussion text, challenging the 'mainstream' characteristics shown by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Charles Dickens Great Expectations and Ivan Trugenev's Fathers and Sons broaden the scope of the study in both literary and historical terms. The block includes extracts from critical writings, which are discussed in detail.
Romantic Writings
This block explores the cultural and historical significance of the Romantic period in both Britain and Europe, using a wide range of poetry and prose from the period 1780-1830. The role of the Romantic artist, Romantic allegory, colonialism and the exotic, and women writers and readers in the Romantic period are among the issues raised in the book, Romantic Writings, which forms the basis of your study. The literary texts studied include works by well-known English Romantic writers: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats. A range of poetry by women writers is used as the discussion 'text' to examine the issue of gender in the Romantic movements and the Romantic period. Study of tow prose texts – Heinrich von Kleist's The Betrothal on Santo Domingo and E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman – adds European and prose perspective on these issues.
Shakespeare and the Canon
This block approaches literature through the idea of the great author and the literary canon, and asks how and why one author achieves canonical status rather than another. The 'great author' considered is Shakespeare. Four Shakespeare plays are studied, both as individual plays and as texts contributing to the canon: Henry V, Othello, Julius Caesar, and As You Like It. The cultural, historical and political conditions of production of all four plays are discussed and the differences between reading the texts of plays and studying performances, in stage, video, film and audio versions, are also explored.
Course Components
The course is made up of the following components
Three books, published by the Open University. These contain the main written teaching material and include extracts from relevant critical writings and/or literary texts.
The Realist Novel edited by Dennis Walder
Romantic Writings edited by Stephen Bygrave
Shakespeare and the Canon edited by W.R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman
Set Texts:
Audio-visual material (see Section 5 below)
Three guides for the study and analysis of poetry, prose, and drama (see Section 6 below)
TMA Booklet. This contains the tutor-marked assignments, a detailed plan of work for the year, and additional important information and guidance.
You will need to refer to it throughout the year as it offers study ti****bles for each block of the course, advice on writing your guidance for presentation (including use of academic conventions), understanding assignment marks and their relation to your course result, things to do and things to avoid, and the examination.
Revision Guide
Specimen Examination Papers
Set texts
Many of the literary texts studied are included in the second part of the books which accompany blocks 1 and 2, but you will also need to buy a number of set texts. We strongly advise you to purchase the recommended editions listed below; all references will be to pages in these editions and sometimes you may be asked to read the introductions[/align]
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