MA in Modern Literature Handbook

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School of English
MA in Modern Literature
Handbook
2013-14
www.le.ac.uk/english
Course Handbook 2013/2014
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WELCOME
Welcome to the MA in Modern Literature
This course combines an intensive introduction to twentieth-century and contemporary literature with
critical exploration of literary and cultural theory and creative writing options. The first part of the year is
structured by taught modules that will introduce you to new texts and ideas, and enhance your powers of
analysis. The second part of the year is devoted to the dissertation, which allows you to pursue an interest of
your own, working on a one-to-one basis with a supervisor who has expertise in your chosen field. Students
have the opportunity to graduate with an MA in Modern Literature and Creative Writing by taking at least
one creative option module and writing a creative dissertation. Whichever path you choose to follow, by
offering a range of exciting intellectual challenges in the context of a vibrant and supportive academic
community, this MA will equip you with a detailed knowledge of themes and issues in modern literature as
well as valuable research skills.
The MA brings together a unique group of students from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds. Your
wealth of experience and broad range of perspectives will enrich the course. Everyone has a worthwhile
contribution to make and student input plays a key part in making the programme an intellectually
invigorating and rewarding one.
This handbook contains important information about the course and University: the course structure, module
outlines, reading lists, marking criteria, staff details, facts about the library and computing facilities, and
more. Please read the handbook carefully – you’ll need to refer to it throughout the course.
All the tutors on the MA look forward to teaching you and wish you an enjoyable and successful year.
Dr Emma Parker, Course Convenor
October 2013
Information contained within this Handbook was correct as at 30 September 2013, but changes may
exceptionally have to be made in the light of unforeseen circumstances.
This Handbook is available via the School website.
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CONTENTS
Induction ...............................................................................................................................................................4
For international students .................................................................................................................................4
School Details ........................................................................................................................................................4
School Communications ....................................................................................................................................4
Staff List and Key Contacts ................................................................................................................................5
Student Communications and Contact Details .................................................................................................6
Research Seminar Series ...................................................................................................................................6
Course Details ........................................................................................................................................................8
Schedule of Year's Activities ..............................................................................................................................8
Schedules and Reading Lists ............................................................................................................................11
Programme and Module Specifications ..........................................................................................................57
Attendance Requirements ..............................................................................................................................58
Teaching Timetable .........................................................................................................................................58
Coursework Submission ..................................................................................................................................58
Dissertation Preparation .................................................................................................................................58
Change of Course/Module ..............................................................................................................................60
Marking and Assessment Practices .....................................................................................................................61
Feedback and the Return of Work from Staff .................................................................................................61
Progression and Classification of Awards........................................................................................................61
Feedback from Students......................................................................................................................................62
Student Feedback Questionnaires ..................................................................................................................62
Student Staff Committees ...............................................................................................................................62
Societies...............................................................................................................................................................62
University Facilities ..............................................................................................................................................63
University Library ............................................................................................................................................63
IT Services ........................................................................................................................................................63
University Bookshop........................................................................................................................................64
Other Important University Services ...............................................................................................................64
University Regulations .........................................................................................................................................65
Student Responsibilities ..................................................................................................................................65
Neglect of Academic Obligations ....................................................................................................................65
Referencing and Academic Honesty....................................................................................................................66
Notification of Ill Health and other Mitigating Circumstances............................................................................69
Personal Support for Students ............................................................................................................................69
School Student Support Arrangements ...........................................................................................................69
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Equal Opportunities.........................................................................................................................................69
University Student Support arrangements .....................................................................................................70
Students’ Union Education Unit (ED) ..............................................................................................................71
Learning Development ....................................................................................................................................72
Careers and Employability ...................................................................................................................................72
Career Development Service ...........................................................................................................................72
Personal Development Planning .....................................................................................................................73
Safety and Security ..............................................................................................................................................74
Personal Belongings ............................................................................................................................................74
Complaints and Academic Appeals Procedures ..................................................................................................74
Tutors ..................................................................................................................................................................75
Marking Criteria...................................................................................................................................................76
EN7001 Bibliography Presentation .................................................................................................................76
EN7001 Written Exercise .................................................................................................................................77
Coursework and Critical Dissertations ............................................................................................................78
Creative Writing...............................................................................................................................................79
Reflective Commentaries on Creative Writing ................................................................................................80
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Induction
An induction session will be held 11.00am to 1.00pm on Wednesday 2 October: this session will include
students in the School of English, the School of Modern Languages and the Department of the History of Art
and Film. Dr Parker will also meet with MA Modern Literature students separately at 3.00pm on 2 October.
For international students
International students are encouraged to attend the University's International Student Welcome Programme
(www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/welfare/international-student-support/iswp) prior to the beginning of term.
International Student Support also provide ongoing support and advice for International students
(www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/welfare/international-student-support).
Students who are non-native English speakers and/or who are not familiar with UK Higher Education are
strongly advised to attend the English Language Teaching Unit's in-sessional programme Academic English for
Postgraduates and Staff (www2.le.ac.uk/offices/eltu/insessional/el2000). These classes are provided free of
charge for postgraduates and are designed to develop students' English-language and study skills.
School Details
A brief history of the School may be found here: www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/about
The School is located in the Attenborough Tower, primarily on floors 13, 14, and 15. The School Office is Att
1514. Campus maps are available at: www2.le.ac.uk/maps.
Information on School research interests can be found via the staff list at:
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people.
School Communications
Pigeonholes for postgraduate students are located on the sixteenth floor. Noticeboards containing
information relevant to postgraduates are also located on the sixteenth floor. Staff pigeonholes are located
on the fifteenth floor, in Att 1514.
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Staff List and Key Contacts
The School’s complete staff list may be found online at: www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people.
The following table provides key contact information:
Room

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Head of School
Prof Julie Coleman
1401
252 2635
jmc21@le.ac.uk
Senior Tutor for PGT
Dr Julian North
1308
252 2776
jrn8@le.ac.uk
Course Convenor
Dr Emma Parker
1405
252
ep27@le.ac.uk
Programme Administrator /
AccessAbility Officer
Mr Simon Poole
1514
252 2622
englishma@le.ac.uk
Departmental Safety Officer
/ IT Contact
Mrs Carol Arlett
1504
252 2792
cja26@le.ac.uk
Departmental Safety Officer
Mrs Carol Arlett
1403
252 2792
cja26@le.ac.uk
Equal Opportunities Officer
tbc
Careers Tutor
Dr Richa Dwor
1512
252 5337
rgd5@le.ac.uk
Dr Emma Parker, Convenor of the MA in Modern Literature, is available for consultation about matters
academic and pastoral at the times advertised on the door of her room (Att 1405). In emergencies, she can
be contacted at other times. In addition, all students are allocated a personal tutor, whom they are invited to
consult about personal and academic difficulties met during the course.
Your personal tutor will offer confidential advice and support on a range of matters, from official dealings
with the University, College or School (this includes advice on issues relating to modules on which your
personal tutor also teaches; as personal tutor their role is to provide you with support, not discipline) to
guidance on how to proceed in the event of a failure. It is in your interests to ensure that your personal tutor
is kept informed about anything that might affect your ability to fulfil your assignment and attendance
obligations. Your personal tutor will be able to put you in touch with a range of specialist advisers within the
university, qualified to give financial, medical and welfare advice.
For administrative matters, the Programme Administration team are available in Att 1514 from 9.00am to
5.00pm, Monday to Friday.
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Student Communications and Contact Details
The University keeps a record of your contact details – i.e. your term-time and vacation postal address(es),
telephone number, any alternative (personal) email address, and your emergency contact person. It is
important that this record is kept up-to-date.
Email registry@le.ac.uk, using your University email account, to inform the University of any change to your
contact details. Include your student number in the email.
Check your University email account frequently to ensure that you do not miss any important communication
from the University or your department.
When emailing the Registry, please c.c. your message to englishma@le.ac.uk, to ensure that the School also
has an up-to-date record of your contact details.
Research Seminar Series
The School hosts a number of research seminar series during the year; postgraduate students are very
welcome to attend these seminars.
School of English Research Seminar
The School of English Research Seminar runs on alternate Wednesdays 1-2pm throughout first and second
semesters. Members of staff will speak on their current research and invite questions and discussion. All are
welcome. Please see email and noticeboards for further details or contact Dr Julian North jrn8@le.ac.uk.
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Modern Literature Research Seminar
School of English
Modern Literature Research Seminar
2013/14
4.30-6pm
Location: TBC
Thursday 17 October:
Dr David James (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Modernism's Movements: Expansion and
Continuity’
Thursday 28 November:
Professor Emerita Mary Eagleton, ‘From Chance to Choice: From Margaret Drabble to Zadie Smith’
(Leeds Metropolitan University)
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Course Details
Schedule of Year's Activities
See www.le.ac.uk/av/avsrooms/index.html for help in locating venues.
SEMESTER 1 (Autumn Term)
Week 1
2 Oct
11am1pm
Introduction to College
2pm-3-pm Introduction to School
Physics LTA
Various
Bennett LT10
Various
3pm-4pm
Introduction to Course
Att LG01
All tutors
5-7pm
Postgraduate Reception
CW2 Belvoir
Park Lounge
All
postgraduate
students &
tutors
See separate
timetable for
venues
Various tutors
Week 2
9 Oct
10am12noon
Bibliography, Research Methods
and Writing Skills course
Week 2
9 Oct
2pm-4pm
A Movement I: Modernism
Att 202
C. Morley
Week 3
16 Oct
2pm-4pm
A Movement II: Modernism
Att 202
C. Morley
Week 4
23Oct
2pm-4pm
A Movement III: Modernism
Att 202
C. Morley
Week 5
30 Oct
2pm-4pm
A Decade I: The 1940s
Att 202
V. Stewart
Week 6
6 Nov
2pm-4pm
A Decade II: The 1940s
Att 202
V. Stewart
Week 7
13 Nov
2pm-4pm
A Decade III: The 1940s
Att 202
V. Stewart
Week 8
20 Nov
Week 8
20 Nov
10am12noon
––– Writing Week –––
but please note that you may
need to attend the:
Bibliography, Research Methods
and Writing Skills course
Week 9
27 Nov
2pm–4pm An Author I:
Muriel Spark
Att 202
M. Stannard
Week 10
4 Dec
2pm–4pm An Author II:
Muriel Spark
Att 202
M. Stannard
Week 11
11 Dec
2pm-4pm
Muriel Spark
Att 202
M. Stannard
An Author III:
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See separate
timetable
Week 11
11 Dec
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Bibliography Presentations
See separate
timetable
C. Fowler/
N. Everett
Option Module I
Either:
Literature and Gender: Deviant Bodies and Dissident Desires (FT and PT2)
(10am–12noon, Mondays, 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec. Att 211)
Or:
Writing Fiction (FT and PT2)
(11am-1pm, Thursdays, 10, 24 Oct, 7, 21 Nov, 5, 12 Dec in Att 211)
Core I essay 1 due:
Core I essay 2 due:
Option Module I essay due:
E. Parker
H. Whitehead
12noon Wednesday 27 November 2013
12noon Wednesday 29 January 2014
12noon Wednesday 29 January 2014
SEMESTER 2 (Spring Term)
Week 13
22 Jan
–––– Writing Week ––––
Week 14
27 Jan
12noon3pm
Film screening prior to
Wednesday seminar
Att 211
S. Graham
Week 14
29 Jan
2pm-4pm
AIDS Narratives I
Att 111
S. Graham
Week 15
3 Feb
12noon3pm
Wednesday seminar
Att 211
S. Graham
Week 15
5 Feb
2pm-4pm
AIDS Narratives II
Att 111
S. Graham
Week 16
10 Feb
12noon3pm
Wednesday seminar
Att 211
S. Graham
Week 16
12 Feb
2pm-4pm
AIDS Narratives III
Att 111
S. Graham
Week 17
19 Feb
2pm-4pm
Att 111
C. Fowler
Week 18
26 Feb
2pm-4pm
Att 111
C. Fowler
Week 19
5 Mar
2pm-4pm
Women's Travel Writing and
Postcolonial Feminist Theory I
Postcolonial Feminist Theory II
Postcolonial Feminist Theory III
Att 111
C. Fowler
Week 20
12 Mar 2pm-4pm
Att 111
Week 21
19 Mar 2pm-4pm
A Genre I: The Cosmopolitan
Novel
A Genre II: The Cosmopolitan
Novel
A. Fernandez
Carbajal
A. Fernandez
Carbajal
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Att 111
Week 22
26 Mar 2pm-4pm
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A Genre III: The Cosmopolitan
Novel
Att 111
A. Fernandez
Carbajal
Option Module 2
Either:
Literature in Exile: American Writers in Paris (FT and PT2)
(2pm-4pm, Tuesdays, 28 Jan, 11, 25 Feb, 11, 25 Mar (venue to be advised)
Or:
Poetry Writing and Contemporary Poetry (FT and PT2)
(2pm-4pm, Thursdays, 30 Jan, 13, 27 Feb, 13, 27 Mar in Att. 1301)
P. Jenner
N. Everett
P/T 2 dissertation proposals due: 12noon Wednesday 5 February 2014
SEMESTER 2 (Summer Term)
Week 24 Wed
2pm-4pm
14 May
Dissertation Proposals Preparation
meeting
Att 111
Students only
Att 111
All tutors and
students
Week 25
Wed
2pm-4pm
21 May
Dissertation Proposals
presentations
Week 25
Wed
4pm-5pm
21 May
End-of-Course Tea
Option Module II essay due:
Core II essay 3 due:
F/T dissertation proposals due:
Dissertations (FT and PT2) due:
To be advised All tutors and
students
12noon Wednesday 7 May 2014
12noon Tuesday 16 September 2014
NB Part-time students take the two core modules (Literature and Theory) and the Bibliography module in
their first year. They take two option modules and the dissertation in their second year.
Students are able to substitute one relevant option module offered by the MA in Victorian Studies, the
MA in English Studies, or the MA in English Language and Linguistics for one of the option modules
noted here. Any such request should be made to the Course Convenor. Further details of those option
modules are available via the website or from the School office (Att 1514; email englishma@le.ac.uk).
Please note that options taken outside of this MA course may have different submission schedules.
The word limit for the critical dissertation (EN7033) is 15,000 words; for the creative dissertation (EN7034),
the specified limits are 12,000 words for the creative piece (80% weighting) and 3,000 words for the
reflective commentary (20%).*
* Dissertation word lengths are subject to confirmation by the University.
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Schedules and Reading Lists
EN7001 Bibliography, Research Methods, and Writing Skills for Postgraduates
The module is compulsory for all new postgraduates in the School of English and in the Victorian Studies
Centre. It meets on Wednesday mornings from 10.00am to 12.00noon, unless otherwise specified, beginning
on 9 October 2013. See www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/documentation for assessment details.
Wk
2
Date
9 October
Venue
DW LIB SR
Topic
INTRODUCTION and RESEARCH IN LEICESTER
Introduction to the module and information about
the assessment; Research in the School of English
and the Leicester University Library Archive.
Tutor
Dr J North,
Dr A M D’Arcy,
Dr C Morley,
Dr R Dwor
3
16 October
LIB IT R1
Jackie Hanes (Library)
4
5
23 October
30 October
DW LIB SR
DW IT R1
ELECTRONIC SOURCES OF INFORMATION I: Search
strategies and online catalogues
ACADEMIC WRITING AND REFERENCING
USING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES
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7
6 November
13 November
DW LIB SR
ENGAGING WITH CRITICS: Writing a critical review
SPECIALIST SESSIONS:
Dr J North
Simon Dixon, Caroline
Sampson
Prof G Marshall
LIB IT R1
HISTORICAL SOURCES AND 19th CENTURY
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
Jackie Hanes (Library),
Dr J Moore
ATT 1315
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERIODS
Dr A M D’Arcy
ATT 1301
CREATIVE WRITING
Nick Everett
MODERN LITERATURE
MANAGING REFERENCES AND CITATIONS: Hands-on
session
PRESENTATION SKILLS and PREPARING YOUR
BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTATION
Dr S Graham
Jackie Hanes (Library)
8
20 November
CW CW2 BPL
LIB IT R1
9
27 November
DW LIB SR
10
4 December
DW IT R1
11
11 December
USING BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASES
Steve Rooney Learning
Development, Careers
Service, Dr K Loveman
Dr A M D’Arcy, Dr K
Loveman, Dr C Morley
STUDENT BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTATIONS:
Att 002
CW CW2 BPL
DW LIB SR
I. Research and MA English Studies
II. MA Victorian Studies
III. MA Modern Literature
Dr A M D’Arcy, Dr K
Loveman
Dr J North, Dr L Foster
Dr C Fowler, Nick
Everett
Assessment deadlines:
1. Students will submit two copies of their bibliography and deliver their presentation in the last
seminar of the module on 11 December 2013 (see timetable).
2. The critical review can be submitted via Turnitin at any point before the final deadline which is at
12.00 noon on Monday 13 January, 2014.
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EN7031 Modern Literature and Literary Theory I
A Movement: MODERNISM
Weeks 2, 3, 4
(Catherine Morley)
What is modernism? In what sense was modernism a movement? How much did modernist writers have in
common? On first approaching such questions one is inclined to list the various ‘cultures’ of modernism, a
plural phenomenon in terms of meaning, scope and geography. One might look to mid to late 19th-century
Paris, early 20th-century London, or even pre- and early post-Treaty Dublin as the national capitals where
modernism was unearthed. Such, of course, is undoubtedly the case. One might add New York to the list, in
terms of either the Harlem Renaissance or the 1913 Armory show of the visual arts, or even other European
centres such as Berlin and Vienna. This kind of response invokes the importance of the modern city to the
term ‘modernism’.
One might also look at ‘modernism’ in terms of innovations in literary form: Symbolism, Imagism,
Expressionism, Futurism, theatrical and cinematic abstraction and minimalism, and the philosophical
concerns with the chaotic modern ‘Real’ and its representations. The term might refer to the massive social
shifts of the period (which itself is variable, ranging from the 1840s in France through to the beginnings of the
Second World War): the end of Empire, the colonial and postcolonial experience, the trauma of war,
technological innovations, changes in gender politics, and the shifting dynamics of class.
‘Modernism’ might even be taken to represent the myriad governing concerns of modernist artists and
thinkers: how to represent subjectivity, psychology, historical civilisation and mythology, the chaos and flux
that constitutes modernity, the reconciliation of the permanent and the ephemeral, and the problems with
language as a interlocutor between subject and object.
We will discuss all of these questions and issues through analysis of various primary texts. We will explore the
‘difficulty’ of modernism and the difficulties associated with definition and temporal frameworks.
Primary Texts and Schedule
Week 1: The Name and Nature of Modernism and the Modern
Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story (1926)
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922): Chapters 1, 9, 11, 12 and 18.
A selection of readings and modernist manifestos will be provided in advance of the class.
Week 2: Sexual and Textual Politics
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (1941)
Week 3: ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ : A Selection of Modern Poetry
A selection of poetry will be provided in advance of the class. It will include poems by the following: Richard
Aldington, W.H. Auden, Rupert Brooke, e.e. cummings, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Amy
Lowell, Mina Loy, Louis Mac Neice, George Oppen, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, Wallace
Stevens, William Carlos Williams, W.B. Yeats, Louis Zukofsky.
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Secondary Reading
The secondary material attached is grouped by author and topic; at the beginning is a list of general texts
relating to the period. Secondary reading lists are indicative rather than exhaustive; you may find it useful to
research beyond these lists for your essays, looking for articles and books on specific writers and topics.
General:
Armstrong, Tim, Modernism, Technology and the Body (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Armstrong, Tim, Modernism: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Polity, 2005).
Bell, Michael, Literature, Modernism and Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Bergonzi, Bernard, The Myth of Modernism (Brighton: Harvester, 1985).
Berman, Marshall, All That is Solid Melts to Air (London: Verso, 1982).
Boone, Joseph Allen, Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism
(London: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Bornstein, George, ed., Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991).
Bradbury, Malcolm, The Modern British Novel (London: Secker & Warburg,
1993).
Bradbury, Malcolm and James MacFarlane, eds., Modernism 1890-1930
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
Bradbury, Malcolm, The Social Context of Modern English Literature (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1971).
Bradshaw, David, ed., A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
Brooker, Peter, ed., Modernism/Postmodernism (London: Longman, 1992).
Brown, Denis, Intertextual Dynamics in the Literary Group (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990).
Bürger, Peter, The Decline of Modernism (Cambridge: Polity, 1992).
Butler, Christopher, Early Modernism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Cardinal, Agnès, Dorothy Goldman, and Judith Hattaway, eds., Women’s Writing
on the First World War (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999).
Carey, John, The Intellectuals and the Masses (London: Faber, 1992).
Chedfor, Monique, Ricardo Quinones and Albert Wachtel, eds., Modernism:
Challenges and Perspectives (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986).
Chernaik, Warren, Warwick Gould and Ian R. Willison, eds., Modernist Writers
and the Marketplace (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995).
Cheyette, Bryan and Laura Marcus, eds., Modernity, Culture, and ‘the Jew’
(Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998).
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Cheyette, Bryan, Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial
Representations 1875-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994).
Childs, Peter, Modernism (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
Diepeveen, Leonard, The Difficulties of Modernism (London: Routledge, 2003).
Eysteinsson, Astradur, The Concept of Modernism (Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1990).
Faulkner, Peter, ed., Modernism (London: Methuen, 1977).
Faulkner, Peter, ed., A Modernist Reader (London: Batsford, 1988).
Fokkema, Douwe, Modernist Conjectures (London: Hurst, 1987).
Ford, Boris, ed., The Modern Age (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963).
Friedman, Alan, The Turn of the Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Halliwell, Martin, Modernism and Morality (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Hargreaves, Tracy, Androgyny in Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Harrison, Elizabeth Jane and Shirley Peterson, eds., Unmanning Modernism:
Gendered Re-Readings (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997).
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou, eds., Modernism: an
Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998).
Lassner, Phyllis, British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1997).
Levenson, Michael, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1999).
Levenson, Michael, A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literacy
Doctrine, 1908-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984).
Litz, A. Walton, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol 7, Modernism and the New Criticism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Lodge, David, The Modes of Modern Writing (London: Methuen, 1977).
Lunn, Eugene, Marxism and Modernism (London: Verso, 1982).
McHale, Brian, Postmodernist Fiction (London: Methuen, 1987).
MacKay, Marina, Modernism and the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007).
Martin, Graham and P.N. Furbank, eds., Twentieth Century Critical Essays and
Documents (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1975).
Matthews, Steven, Modernism (London: Arnold, 2004).
Matthews, Steven, ed., Modernism: A Sourcebook (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008).
Menand, Louis, Discovering Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Miller, Jane Eldridge, Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel (London: Virago, 1994).
Miller, Tyrus, Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction and the Arts Between the World
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Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Morley, Catherine and Alex Goody, eds., American Modernism: Cultural
Transactions (Durham: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2009).
Morrisson, Mark, The Public Face of Modernism (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001).
Nicholls, Peter, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995).
Nochlin, Linda and Tamar Garb, eds., The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the
Construction of Identity (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995).
North, Michael, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth-Century
Literature (Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 1994).
Parsons, Deborah, Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity
(Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000).
Perkins, David, Is Literary History Possible? (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
Perkins, David, Theoretical Essays in Literary History (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University
Press, 1991).
Perloff, Marjorie, The Futurist Moment (Illinois and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Perloff, Marjorie, 21st-Century Modernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
Piette, Adam, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939-1945 (London: Papermac, 1995).
Poplawski, Paul, ed., An Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003) .
Potter, Rachel, Modernism and Democracy (Oxford: OUP, 2006).
Rainey, Laurence, Institutions of Modernism (London: Yale University Press, 1998).
Quinones, Ricardo, Mapping Literary Modernism (Princeton and Guildford: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Rawlinson, Mark, British Writing of the Second World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Schwarz, Daniel, The Transformation of the English Novel (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1989).
Scott, Bonnie Kime, ed., The Gender of Modernism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Scott, Bonnie Kime, Refiguring Modernism, vol 1, The Women of 1928 (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1995)
Sherry, Vincent B., The Great War and the Language of Modernism (Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2003).
Sherry, Vincent, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and Radical Modernism (Oxford;
New: Oxford UP, 1993).
Shiach, Morag, The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007)
Smith, Andrew and Jeff Wallace, eds., Gothic Modernisms (Basingstoke: Palgrave,
2001).
Stevens, Hugh and Caroline Howlett, eds., Modernist Sexualities (Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2000).
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Stevenson, Randall, Modernist Fiction (London: Prentice Hall, rev. ed., 1997).
Stewart, Victoria, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
Tate, Trudi and Suzanne Rait, eds., Women’s Fiction and the Great War (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1997).
Tate, Trudi,
Modernism, History and the Great War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)
Thormählen, Marianne, ed., Rethinking Modernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003).
Trotter, David, The English Novel in History 1895-1920 (London: Routledge, 1993).
Trotter, David, Paranoid Modernism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Waugh, Patricia, ed., Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for Studying Modern Literature (London:
Edward Arnold, 1997).
Williams, Keith, and Steven Matthews, eds., Rewriting the Thirties: After
Modernism (London: Longman, 1997).
Williams, Raymond, The Politics of Modernism, ed. Tony Pinkney (London: Verso,
1989).
Wirth-Nesher, Hana. City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge:
Witemeyer, Hugh. Ed. The Future of Modernism (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1997).
Arthur Schnitzler:
Anderson, Susan, ‘The Power of the Gaze: Visual Metaphors in Schnitzler’s Prose
Works and Dramas’ in A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler, ed. Dagmar Lorenz (New York:
Camden House, 2003), pp. 303-324.
Arens, Katherine, ‘Schnitzler and Characterilogy: From Empire to Third Reich’,
Modern Austrian Literature 19:3-4 (1986): 97-127.
Baummer, Franz, Arthur Schnitzler (Berlin: Colloquium, 1992).
Ferguson, Harvie, The Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the Construction of
Modernity (London: Routledge, 1996).
Genno, Charles and Heinz Wetzel, eds. The First World War in German Narrative
Prose (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980)
Huyssen, Andreas, ‘The Disturbance of Vision in Vienna Modernism’,
Modernism/modernity 5:3 (1998): 33-47.
Keiser, Brenda, Deadly Dishonour: The Duel and the Honor Code in the Works of
Arthur Schnitzler (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).
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Kuttenberg, E., ‘Soma, Psyche, Corpse and Gaze: Perception and Vision in Arthur
Schnitzler’s Early Prose’, Modern Austrian Literature 40.2 (2007): 21-42.
Marten, L., ‘A Dream Narrative: Schnitzler’s Der Sekundant’, Modern Austrian
Literature 23.1 (1990): 1-17.
Lorenz, Dagmar, ed., A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (New York:
Camden House, 2003).
Otis, Laura, ‘The Language of Infection: Disease and Identity in Schnitzler’s
Reigen’, The Germanic Review 70.2 (1995): 65-75.
Perlmann, Michaela L., Arthur Schnitzler (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1987).
Roberts, Adrian, Arthur Schnitzler and Politics, (Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 1989).
Santner, Eric L., ‘Of Masters, Slaves and Other Seducers: Arthur Schnitzler’s
Traumnovelle’, Modern Austrian Literature 19:3-4 (1986): 33-48
Schmidt, Willa Elizabeth, The Changing Role of Women in the Works of Arthur
Schnitzler (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973).
Stock, Irwin, Fiction as Wisdom: From Goethe to Bellow (Philadelphia: Penn State
University Press, 1980).
Swales, Martin, Arthur Schnitzler: A Critical Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1971).
Thompson, Bruce, Schnitzer’s Vienna: Image of a Society (New York: Routledge,
1990).
Tweraser, Felix W., Political Dimensions of Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fiction
(Columbia: Camden House, 1998).
Weinburger, G.J., Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Plays: A Critical Study (NY: Peter Lang,
1997).
Wisely, Andrew C., Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Dueling
(New York: Peter Lang, 1996).
Wisely, Andrew C., Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth Century Criticism (New York:
Camden House, 2004).
James Joyce:
Attridge, Derek, ed., The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge:
Attridge, Derek and Marjorie Howes, eds., Semicolonial Joyce (Cambridge:
Attridge, Derek, Joyce Effects (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
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Blamires, Harry, The Bloomsday Book (London: Methuen , 1966).
Burgess, Anthony, Joysprick (London: Deutsch, 1975).
Cheng, Vincent, Race, Joyce and Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995). Connor, Steven, James Joyce
(London: Northcote House, 1996).
Denning, Robert H., ed., James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge,
1970).
Eco, Umberto, The Middle Ages of James Joyce (London: Hutchinson, 1982).
Eide, Marian, ‘The Woman of the Ballyhoura Hills: James Joyce and the Politics of
Creativity’, Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (Winter 1998): 377-91.
Ellmann, Richard, James Joyce (Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 1982). Rev. ed.
Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey (London: Faber, 1972).
Fairhall, James, James Joyce and the Question of History (Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1993).
Gifford, Don, Ulysses Annotated (Berkeley: University of California Press, rev.ed.
1987).
Gilbert, Stuart, James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (rev.ed. 1952).
Herr, Cheryl, Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1986).
Iser, Wolfgang, The Implied Reader (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974).
Jacobs, Joshua, ‘Joyce’s Epiphanic Mode: Material Language and the
Representation of Sexuality in Stephen Hero and Portrait’, Twentieth
Century Literature 46.2 (Spring 2000): 20-33.
Kenner, Hugh, Dublin’s Joyce (New York; Guildford: Columbia UP, 1987).
Kenner, Hugh, Joyce’s Voices (London: Faber, 1978).
Klein, Scott, The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge: CUP,
1994).
Lawrence, Karen, The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981).
Litz, A. Walton, The Art of James Joyce (Oxford: OUP, 1961).
McCabe, Colin, James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word (London: Macmillan,
1979).
McCormack, W. J. & A. Stead (eds.), James Joyce and Modern Literature (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982)
Mahaffey, Vicki, Reauthorizing Joyce (Cambridge: CUP, 1988).
Manganiello, Dominic, Joyce’s Politics (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).
Mulrooney, Jonathan, ‘Stephen Dedalus and the Politics of Confession’, Studies in
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the Novel 33.2 (Summer 2001): 160-79.
Nolan, Emer, James Joyce and Nationalism (London: Routledge, 1995).
Piette, Adam, Remembering and the Sound of Words (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996).
Roughley, Alan, James Joyce and Critical Theory (Brighton: Harvester, 1991).
Roughley, Alan, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University of Florida
Press, 1999).
Schwarz, Daniel, Reading Joyce’s Ulysses (London: Macmillan, 1987).
Scott, Bonne Kime, Joyce and Feminism (Brighton; Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1984).
Seidel, Michael, James Joyce (Oxford, Blackwell, 2002).
Spoo, Robert, James Joyce and the History of Language (Oxford; New York: Oxford
UP, 1994).
Vanderham, Paul, James Joyce and Censorship (London, Macmillan, 1998).
Ford Madox Ford:
Cassell, Richard A. ed., Critical Essays on Ford Madox Ford (Boston, Mass.: G.K.
Hall, 1987).
Foss, Chris, ‘Abjection and Appropriation: Male Subjectivity in The Good Soldier’,
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 9.3 (Dec. 1998): 225-44
Fowles, Anthony, Student Guide to Ford Madox Ford: The Principle Fiction
(London: Greenwich Exchange, 2002).
Hampson, Robert and Max Saunders, eds., Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003).
Haslam, Sara, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great
War (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002).
Hoffman, Karen A., ‘“Am I no better than a eunuch?”: Narrating Masculinity and
Empire in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier’, Journal of Modern Literature 27.3 (Winter 2004): 30-46.
Hood, Richard, ‘“Constant Reduction”: Modernism and the Narrative Structure if
The Good Soldier’, Journal of Modern Literature 14.4 (Spring 1988): 445-64.
MacShane, Frank, ed., Ford Madox Ford: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge
& Kegan Paul, 1972).
Mickalites, Carey J., ‘The Good Soldier and Capital’s Interiority Complex’, Studies
in the Novel 38.3 (Fall 2006): 288-303.
Nigro, Frank G., ‘Who framed The Good Soldier? Dowell’s story in search of a
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Form’, Studies in the Novel 24.4 (Winter 1992): 381-91.
Young, Kenneth, Ford Madox Ford (London: Longmans, Green, 1956).
Virginia Woolf:
Abel, Elizabeth, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (Chicago:
Chicago UP, 1989).
Adolph, Andrea, ‘Luncheon at “The Leaning Tower”: Consumption and Class in
Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.’ Women’s Studies 34.6 (Sep. 2005): 439-59.
Ames, Christopher, ‘The Modernist Canon: Woolf’s Between the Acts and Joyce’s
“Oxen of the Sun”’, Twentieth Century Literature 37.4 (Winter 1991): 390-404.
Barrett, Eileen, and Patricia Cramer, eds., Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings
(London; New York: New York UP, 1997).
Bowlby, Rachel, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997).
Bowlby, Rachel, ed., Virginia Woolf (London: Longman, 1992).
Briggs, Julia, Reading Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006).
Caughie, Pamela, ed., Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
(London; New York: Garland, 2000).
Caughie, Pamela, Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and
Question of Itself (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991).
Cuddy-Keane, Melba, Virginia Woolf, The Intellectual and the Public Sphere.
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003).
Detloff, Madelyn. ‘Thinking Peace into Existence: The Spectacle of History in
Between the Acts’, Women’s Studies 28.4 (Sep 1999): 403-433.
Goldman, Jane, The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, PostModernism and the Politics of the Visual (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).
Greene, Sally, ed., Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance (Athens: Ohio UP,
1999).
Hanson, Clare, Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994).
Haule, James M. and J.H. Stape, eds., Editing Virginia Woolf: Interpreting the
Modernist Text (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
Hussey, Mark, ed., Virginia Woolf and the War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth
(Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1991).
Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (London: Vintage, 1997).
Levenback, Karen L., Virginia Woolf and the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse
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UP, 1999).
Marcus, Jane, Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy (Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1987).
Marcus, Jane, New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf (London: Macmillan, 1981).
Marcus, Laura, Virginia Woolf (Plymouth: Northcote House, 2004).
Marsh, Nicholas, Virginia Woolf: The Novels (Basingstoke; New York: Macmillan
Press; St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
Miller, Andrew John, ‘“Our Representative, Our Spokesman”: Modernity,
Professionalism, and Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Between The Acts’, Studies in the Novel 33.1 (2001):
34-50.
Miller, Marlowe A., ‘Unveiling “the dialect of culture and barbarism” in British
pageantry.’ Papers on Language & Literature 34.2 (Spring 1998): 134-61.
Miller, Tyrus, Late Modernism: Politics, Ficiton and the Arts Between the World
Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Moran, P., Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia
Woolf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
Morgan, Clare, ‘Vanishing Horizons: Virginia Woolf and the Neo-Romantic
Landscape in Between the Acts and “Anon”.’ Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion 5.1 (2001): 35-57.
Pawlowski, Merry M., ed., Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators’
Seduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Peach, Linden, Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan; St.
Martin’s Press, 2000).
Roe, Sue and Susan Sellers, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
Smith, Angela, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1999).
Westman, Karin E., ‘“For her generation the newspaper was a book”: Media,
Mediation, and Oscillation in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts’, Journal of Modern Literature 29.2 (Winter
2006): 1-18.
Williams, Lisa, The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia
Woolf (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Woolf, Virginia, On Women and Writing. Sel. and Ed. Michèle Barrett (London:
Women’s Press, 1979).
Yoshino, Ayako, ‘Between the Acts and Louis Napoleon-Parker – the Creator of
the Modern English Pageant’, Critical Survey 15.2 (2003): 49-60.
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Modern Poetry
Carter, Ronald, ed., Thirties Poets: A Casebook: ‘The Auden Group’ (London:
Macmillan, 1984).
Davis, Alex and Lee M. Jenkins, eds., Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and
Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
Davis, Alex, The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Dickie, Margaret and Thomas Travisano, eds., Gendered Modernisms: American
Women Poets and Their Readers (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).
Dowson, Jane, ed., Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology (London:
Routledge, 1996).
Dowson, Jane, Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910 –1939: Resisting
Femininity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
Eliot, T.S., Selected Essays (1932; London: Faber, 1999).
Eliot, T.S., Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, ed. Frank Kermode (London: Faber, 1975).
Ellmann, Richard, Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot and
Auden (New York: Oxford UP, 1967).
Emig, Rainer, W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics (Basingstoke: Palgrave,
2000).
Emig, Rainer, Modernism in Poetry: Motivation, Structures, and Limits (London: Longman, 1995).
Gish, Nancy K., Time in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot: A Study in Structure and Theme
(London: Macmillan, 1980).
Longenbach, James, Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot and a Sense of the
Past (Guildford; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987).
Longenbach, James, Modern Poetry After Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Moody, A. David, ed., The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot (Cambridge:
Perkins, David, A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist
Mode (London; Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1976).
Perkins, David, A History of Modern Poetry, vol 2 Modernism and After (Cambridge and London: Harvard
Perloff, Marjorie, 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics (Oxford: Blackwell,
2003).
Perloff, Marjorie, Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric
(Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern UP, 1990).
Rosenthal, M. L. The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction (New York: Oxford UP,
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1965).
Schwartz, Sanford. The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early TwentiethCentury Thought (Guildford; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985).
Sherry, Vincent B. The Great War and the Language of Modernism (Oxford: Oxford
UP, 2003).
Spears, Monroe K., Auden: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1964).
Stead, C.K., Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1986).
Stead, C.K., The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967).
Wasley, Aidan, ‘Auden and Poetic Inheritance’, Raritan 19.2 (Fall 1999): 128-57.
A Decade: THE 1940s
Weeks 5, 6, 7
(Victoria Stewart)
In these seminars, we will examine literary works published during the 1940s and consider their treatment of
key concerns of the period, particularly the effects of war on everyday life and consciousness. We will also
examine how these works were first received, in the context of the literary culture of the 1940s. Until
recently, this decade was relatively neglected by literary critics and we will consider the various literary,
cultural and political reasons why this might be the case, as well as assessing the continuities and divergences
between these works and those which came before and after.
Primary Texts
Hamilton, Patrick, Hangover Square (1941; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001).
Greene, Graham, The Ministry of Fear (1943; London: Vintage, 2006).
Bowen, Elizabeth, ‘The Demon Lover’ (1941), ‘Mysterious Kôr’ (1944), and ‘Ivy Gripped the Steps’ (1945).
These stories can be found in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (London: Vintage, 1999); copies will be
made available.
Secondary Reading - General
Bergonzi, Bernard, Wartime and Aftermath: English Literature and Its Background 1939-60 (Oxford: Oxford
DeCoste, Damon Marcel, ‘The Literary Response to the Second World War’, Brian W. Shaffer, ed., A
Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Fussell, Paul, Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1989).
Hayes, Nick and Jeff Hill, eds., ‘Millions Like Us’? British Culture in the Second World War (Liverpool: Liverpool
Hewison, Robert, Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939-1945 (London: Quartet Books, 1979).
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Lassner, Phyllis, British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1997).
Mellor, Leo, Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2011)
MacKay, Marina, Modernism and the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Piette, Adam, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939-1945 (London: Papermac, 1995).
Rawlinson, Mark, British Writing of the Second World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Patrick Hamilton
Anon. [Arthur Calder-Marshall], ‘Patrick Hamilton’s Novels’, Times Literary Supplement 7 September 1951:
564.
Earnshaw, Steven, The Pub in Literature: England’s Altered State (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2000).
Mepham, John, ‘Varieties of Modernism, Varieties of Incomprehension: Patrick Hamilton and Elizabeth
Bowen’, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Marina Mackay eds., British Fiction After Modernism: the Novel at MidCentury (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007).
Stewart, Victoria, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
Widdowson, Peter, ‘The Saloon Bar Society: Patrick Hamilton’s Fiction in the 1930s’, John Lucas, ed., The
1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1978.
Graham Greene
DeCoste, Damon, ‘Modernism’s Shell-Shocked History: Amnesia, Repetition and the War in Graham Greene’s
The Ministry of Fear’, Twentieth Century Literature 45.4 (Winter 1999): 428-51.
Diemert, Brian, Graham Greene’s Thrillers and the 1930s (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996).
Meyers, Jeffrey, Graham Greene: A Revaluation (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990).
Rau, Petra, ‘The Common Frontier: Fictions of Alterity in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day and Graham
Greene’s The Ministry of Fear’, Literature and History 14.1 (2005): 31-55.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene Volume 2 1939-1955 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1994).
Silverstein, Marc, ‘After the Fall: The World of Graham Greene’s Thrillers’, Novel 22.1 (1988): 24-44.
Stewart, Victoria, ‘The Auditory Uncanny in Wartime London: Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear, Textual
Practice 18.1 (2004): 65-81.
Elizabeth Bowen
Briggs, Julia, Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (London: Faber, 1977).
Brooke, Jocelyn, Elizabeth Bowen (London: Longmans. Green & Co, 1952).
Corcoran, Neil, Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Ellmann, Maud, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003).
Glendinning, Victoria, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer (London: Phoenix, 1993).
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Hanson, Clare, Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985).
Hartley, Jenny, Millions Like Us: British Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (London: Virago, 1997).
Hepburn, Allan, ed., Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
Hepburn, Allan, ed., People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2010)
Miller, Kristine A., ‘“Even a Shelter’s Not Safe”: The Blitz on Homes in Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Writing’,
Twentieth Century Literature 45.2 (1999): 138-58.
Walshe, Eibhear, ed., Elizabeth Bowen (Cork: Irish Academic Press, 2008)
An Author: MURIEL SPARK
Weeks 9, 10, 11
(Martin Stannard)
The three seminars will each deal with two novels. The first seminar will cover Robinson (1957) and The
Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), and focus on the nature of Spark’s experimental satire, its literary roots
(Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Beerbohm, Wilde) and its avant-garde metafictional form. For this you should
also read her short stories ‘The Go-Away Bird’ and ‘The Portobello Road’. The second seminar will examine
two ‘London’ novels The Bachelors (1960) and A Far Cry From Kensington (1988). Here the questions of
education, exile, feminism, fascism, ‘faction’, and the historical novel will be raised. For this, you should also
read her autobiographical story ‘The Gentile Jewesses’ and re-read T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. The third
seminar will discuss one novel indebted to the nouveau roman, The Driver's Seat (1970), and one, Loitering
with Intent (1981), that is deeply autobiographical, a novel about female identity, the near-sacred nature of
the writing process, and male attempts to colonise and possess it. You could also read her autobiography,
Curriculum Vitae (1992) alongside it, and her essay ‘The Desegregation of Art’ (photocopy supplied).
Primary Texts
Seminar 1: Robinson (1957) and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
Seminar 2: The Bachelors (1960) and A Far Cry From Kensington (1988)
Seminar 3: The Driver’s Seat (1970) and Loitering With Intent (1981)
Secondary Reading
Bold, Alan, Muriel Spark. Contemporary Writers series (London: Methuen, 1986).
---, ed., An Odd Capacity for Vision (London: Vision Press, 1984).
Cheyette, Bryan, Muriel Spark. Writers and Their Work series (Harlow: Longman for the British Council,
2000); see also Patricia Stubbs, below.
Hynes, Joseph, The Art of the Real: Muriel Spark’s Novels (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press; London and Toronto, Associated University Presses, 1988).
---, ed., Critical Essays on Muriel Spark (New York: G.K. Hall & Co./Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992).
Kane, Richard C., Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. Didactic Demons in Modern Fiction (Cranbury,
N.J. and London: Associated University Presses, 1988).
Kemp, Peter, Muriel Spark. Novelists and Their World series (London: Paul Elek, 1974).
Kermode, Frank, ‘The House of Fiction. Interviews With Seven Novelists’, in Malcolm Bradbury, ed., The Novel
Today (London: Fontana, 1977), pp.131-35.
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Little, Judy, Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark and Feminism (Lincoln and London: University of
Nebraska Press, 1983).
McQuillan, Martin, ed., Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction (London: Palgrave, 2002).
Contains the most up-to-date published bibliography of critical reading on Spark (pp.235-241).
Malkoff, Karl, Muriel Spark. Columbia Essays on Modern Writers series (New York and London: Columbia
Massie, Allan, Muriel Spark (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1979).
Page, Norman, Muriel Spark. Macmillan Modern Novelists series (London: Macmillan, 1990).
Sproxton, Judy, The Women of Muriel Spark (London: Constable, 1992).
Stanford, Derek, Muriel Spark: A Biographical and Critical Study (Fontwell: Centaur Press, 1963).
Stannard, Martin, ‘Nativities: Muriel Spark, Baudelaire, and the Quest for Religious Faith’, RES, New Series,
Vol. 55, No. 218 (2003), 91-105.
---, ‘Muriel Spark’ in David Kastan (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Vol. 5 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 63-66.
---, Muriel Spark: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009).
Stonebridge, Lyndsey, ‘Hearing Them Speak: Voices in Wilfred Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald’,
Textual Practice, 19.4 (2005), 445-465.
Stubbs, Patricia, Muriel Spark. Writers and Their Work series (Harlow: Longman for the British Council, 1973);
see new and extended Spark volume by Bryan Cheyette (2000), above.
Whittaker, Ruth, The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982).
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Option Module I (Ft and Pt2)
EN7134: LITERATURE AND GENDER:
Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
DEVIANT BODIES AND DISSIDENT DESIRES
(Emma Parker)
Primary Texts
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928).
Brigid Brophy, In Transit (1969).
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory (1984).
Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1998).
Graham Rawle, Woman’s World (2005).
You may also be interested in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928), Josephine Tey’s To Love and Be
Wise (1950), Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between (1968), Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge (1968), Ursula Le Guin’s
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Manuel Puig’s Kiss of
the Spider Woman (1976), Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977), Barbara Wilson’s Gaudi Afternoon
(1990), Lindsay Clarke’s The Chymical Wedding (1991), Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country (1992), Jeanette
Winterson’s Written on the Body (1992), Will Self’s Cock and Bull (1992), Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues
(1993), Susan Swan’s The Wives of Bath (1993), Patrick McGrath’s Dr Haggard’s Disease (1993), Paul Magrs’s
Could it be Magic? (1997), Judith Katz’s The Escape Artist (1997), Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1998),
Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto (1998), Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry (1999), Chuck
Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters (1999), Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood (2000), Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
(2002), Wesley Stace’s Misfortune (2004), Christopher Wilson’s The Ballad of Lee Cotton (2005), Nu Nu Yi’s
Smile as They Bow (1994/2008), Rieko Matsuura, The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (1993/2009), and Kathleen
Winter’s Annabel (2010).
Background Reading: Key Texts
Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (London: Routledge, 1994).
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Routledge, 1990).
---. Undoing Gender (London: Routledge, 2004).
Garber, Marjorie, Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (London: Routledge, 1992).
Halberstam, Judith. ‘F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity’ in Laura Doan ed., The Lesbian Postmodern
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 ). 210-228.
---. Female Masculinity (Durham: Duke UP, 1998).
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic
Books, 2000).
Feinberg, Leslie, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul (Boston: Beacon Press,
1996).
---., Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
Nestle, Joan, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins ed., GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (Los
Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002).
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Stryker, Susan and Stephen Whittle ed., The Transgender Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 2006).
Wilchins, Riki, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand, 1997).
Wittig, Monique, The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992).
Further Secondary Reading
Butler, Judith, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (London: Routledge, 1993).
Caserio, Robert L., ‘Queer Fiction: The Ambiguous Emergence of a Genre’ in James English ed., A Concise
Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). 209-28.
Epstein, Julia and Kristina Straub ed., Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity (London:
Routledge, 1991).
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, ‘How To Build a Man’ in Anna Tripp ed., Gender (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000).
Glover, David and Cora Kaplan, Genders (London: Routledge, 2000).
Halberstam, Judith, Female Masculinity (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998).
---., In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NY: NY University Press, 2005).
Hall, Donald E., Queer Theories (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Hargreaves, Tracy, Androgyny in Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Jagose, Annamarie, Queer Theory (Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1996).
Kirby, Viki, Judith Butler (London: Continuum, 2006).
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve, Epistemology of the Closet (London: Routledge, 1994).
---. Tendencies (London: Routledge, 1994).
---ed., Novel Gazing: Queer Reading in Fiction (Durham, N.C. and London: Duke UP, 1997).
Merck, Mandy, Naomi Segal and Elizabeth Wright ed., Coming Out of Feminism? (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).
Moorland, Ian and Annabelle Willcox ed., Queer Theory (London: Palgrave, 2005).
Phelan, Shane, Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories (London: Routledge, 1997).
Prosser, Jay, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York: Columbia University Press,
1998).
Rado, Lisa, The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
2000).
Salih, Sara, Judith Butler (London: Routledge, 2002).
Self, Will and David Gamble, Perfidious Man (London: Viking, 2000).
Spargo, Tamsin, Foucault and Queer Theory (Cambridge: Icon Books, 1999).
Straayer, Chris, Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-Orientations in Film and Video (NY: Columbia UP,
1996). On order.
Stryker, Susan, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback (San Francisco:
Chronicle, 2001). On order.
Tiernay, William G., Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy (London: Sage,
1997).
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Thomas, Calvin, Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (Chicago: U of Illlinois
P, 1999).
Weed, Elizabeth and Naomi Schor ed., Feminism Meets Queer Theory (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997).
Weedon, Chris, Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). See Chapter 3
‘Lesbian Difference, Feminism and Queer Theory’.
Wiegman, Robin & Elena Glasburg ed., Literature and Gender: Thinking Critically Through Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama (London: Longman, 1999).
Wilchins, Riki, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Los Angeles: Alyson, 2004).
Zimmerman, Bonnie & Toni McNaron eds. The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century (NY:
Feminist Press, 1997). Has a chapter on Queer.
Virginia Woolf
Barrett, Eileen & Patricia Cramer ed., Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York: New York University Press,
1997).
Bowlby, Rachel, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 1997).
Boxwell, D.A., ‘(Dis)Orienting Spectacle: The Politics of Orlando’s Sapphic Camp’, Twentieth Century Literature
44: 3 (Fall 1998): 306-327.
Caughie, Pamela, Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1991).
Cervetti, Nancy, ‘In the Breeches, Petticoats and Pleasures of Orlando’, Journal of Modern Literature 20:2
(Winter 1996): 165-176.
Hanson, Clare, Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994).
Harris, Andrea L., Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference From Woolf to Winterson (Albany: State University of
New York, 2000).
Kaivola, Karen, ‘Revisiting Woolf's Representations of Androgyny: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation’, Tulsa
Studies in Women's Literature 18:2 (Fall 1999): 235-61.
Marcus, Jane, New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf (London: Macmillan, 1981).
Minow-Pinkney, Makiko, Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject (New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1987).
Parkes, Adam, ‘Lesbianism, History and Censorship: The Well of Loneliness and the Suppressed Randiness of
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando’, Twentieth Century Literature 40:4 (Winter 1994): 434-60.
Peach, Linden, Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).
Piggford, George, ‘“Who’s That Girl?” Annie Lennox, Woolf’s Orlando and Female Camp Androgyny’, in Fabio
Cleto ed. Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999).
Rado, Lisa, ‘Would the Real Virginia Woolf Please Stand Up? Feminist Criticism, the Androgyny Debates and
Orlando, Women’s Studies 26:2 (April 1997): 147-170.
Taylor, Melanie, ‘True Stories: Orlando, Life-Writing and Transgender Narratives’ in Hugh Stevens & Caroline
Howlett ed. Modernist Sexualities (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000), 202-18.
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Brigid Brophy
Bauer, Dale M. and Susan Jaret McKinstry ed., Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1991. Has a chapter on Brophy.
Lawrence, Karen R. ‘In Transit: From James Joyce to Brigid Brophy’ in Transcultural Joyce, ed. Karen Lawrence.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. pp. 37-45.
Review of Contemporary Fiction 15: 3, Fall 1995. Special issue on Brigid Brophy.
Iain Banks
Butler, Andrew M., ‘Strange Case of Mr. Banks: Doubles and The Wasp Factory’, Foundation: The
International Review of Science Fiction 28: 76 (Summer 1999): 7-27.
March, Christie L., Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway and Kennedy (Manchester:
MUP, 2002).
Nairn, Tom, ‘Iain Banks and the Fiction Factory’ in Gavin Wallace & Randall Stevenson ed., The Scottish Novel
Since the Seventies: New Visions, Old Dreams (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1993).
Punter, David, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day Vol.2: The
Modern Gothic (Basingstoke: Longman, 1996).
Sage, Victor & Allan Lloyd Smith ed., Modern Gothic: A Reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1996).
Schoene-Harwood, Berthold, ‘Dams Burst: Devolving Gender in Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory’, ARIEL: A
Review of International English Literature 30:1 (Jan.1999): 131-48.
Jackie Kay
Anderson, Linda, ‘Autobiographical Travesties: The Nostalgic Self in Queer Writing’ in David Alderson & Linda
Anderson ed., Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries (Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2000).
Clanfield, Peter, ‘What is in My Blood?’ Contemporary Black Scottishness and theWork of Jackie Kay’ in ed.,
Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks, Literature and Racial Ambiguity (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002). 1-25
Halberstam, Judith, ‘Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography’ in María Carla
Sánchez & Linda Schlossberg ed., Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion (New
York: New York UP, 2001).
Hargreaves, Tracy. ‘The Power of the Ordinary Subversive in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet’, Feminist Review 74:
1(2003): 2-16.
Jones, Carole, ‘“An Imaginary Black Family”: Jazz, Diaspora, and the Construction of Scottish Blackness in
Jackie Kay’s Trumpet’’, Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 8:2 (Oct. 2004): 191-202.
King, Jeanette ‘“A Woman’s a Man, for A’ That”: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet’, Scottish Studies Review 2:1 (Spring
2001): 101-108.
Rose, Irene, ‘Heralding New Possibilities: Female Masculinity in Jackie’ Kay’s Trumpet’ in Daniel Lea and
Berthold Schoene ed., Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War Contemporary British Literature
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), 141-57.
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Williams, Patrick, ‘Significant Corporeality: Bodies and Identities in Jackie Kay's Fiction’ in Kadija Sesay ed.,
Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature (Hertford: Hansib, 2005), pp. 41-55.
Whithead, Anne, Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh: EUP, 2004).
Graham Rawle
Ballaster, Ros and Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron. Women's Worlds: Ideology, Femininity
and Women's Magazines (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991).
Chute, Hilary L. Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (New York: Columbia UP, 2010).
Dyhouse, Carol. Glamour: Women, History, Feminism (London: Zed Books, 2010).
Gough-Yates, Anna. Understanding Women’s Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readerships (London:
Routledge, 2002).
Gravett, Paul. Graphic Novels: Everything You need to Know (Collins Design, 2005).
Longhurst, Derek. Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure (London: Routledge, 1989).
Tabachnick, Stephen E. ed. Teaching the Graphic Novel (New York: Modern Language Association of America,
2009).
NB several of the journal essays listed here are on Blackboard and are available via Expanded Academic ASAP.
EN7135: WRITING FICTION
Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11
(Harry Whitehead)
(those marked with an asterisk are particularly recommended)
Practical Guides to Creative Writing
There are hundreds of such works, and most of them not very good. These are exceptions.
* Julia Bell et. al. (eds.), Creative Writing Coursebook (London: Macmillan, 2001)
* Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer (London: Puttnam, 1934 [this ed. 1981])
John Braine, How to Write a Novel (London: Methuen, 2000)
Janet Burroway & Elizabeth Stuckley-French (eds.), Writing Fiction: a Guide to Narrative Craft (London:
Peason Education 2006)
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. (London: Penguin, 2002)
* Andrew Cowan, The Art of Writing Fiction (London: Longman, 2011)
James Frey, How to Write a Damn Good Novel (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987)
James Frey, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994)
* John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (New York: Vintage, 1991)
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Boston: Shambhala, 1986 [this ed.
2006])
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* Robert Graham et. al. (eds.), The Road to Somewhere: a Creative Writing Companion (Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2004)
Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (New York: St. Martin’s, 2001)
Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy, Writing Fiction for Dummies (London: Wiley, 2010)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft (Portland OR.: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998)
Sara Maitland, The Writer’s Way: Realize Your Creative Potential and Become a Successful Author (London:
Arcturus, 2005)
Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing (Cambridge: CUP, 1916 [this ed. 1923])
Michael Rabinger, Developing Story Ideas (London: Focal Press 2005)
Victoria Lynn Schmidt, 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters (Cincinnati:
Writers’ Digest Books, 2001)
John Singleton and Mary Luckhurst (eds.), The Creative Writing Handbook (London: Palgrave, 2000)
Jayne Steele, Wordsmithery (London: Palgrave, 2006)
Barbara Ueland, If You Want to Write: a Book About Art, Independence and Spirit (New York: BN Publishing,
2008 [1st pub. 1938])
Writing Short Fiction
Jack M. Bickham, Writing the Short Story: a Hands On Program (Cincinnati: Writers’ Digest Books, 1994)
* Raymond Carver, ‘Principles of a Short Story’, Prospect Magazine 25 Sep 2005 (essay 1st published in 1981]).
Ailsa Cox, Writing Short Stories (London: Routledge, 2005)
Richard Ford, ‘Introduction’ in The Granta Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Richard Ford (London:
Granta, 1992)
E.A. Markham, ‘Reading, Writing and Teaching the Short Story’, in The Creative Writing Handbook ed. by
Steven Earnshaw (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007) pps 95-108
* Flannery O’Connor, ‘Writing Short Stories’, in Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. (New York: Farrer,
Strauss & Giroux, 1963 [this ed. 2000])
* Joyce Carol Oates, ‘The Origins and Art of the Short Story’, in The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short
Story, ed. by Barbara Lounsberry et. al. (Westport Ct: Greenwood Press)
* Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, in The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe ed. by G.R.
Thompson (London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004) pps 675-684
John Singleton, ‘The Short Story’, in The Creative Writing Handbook ed. by John Singleton and Mary Luckhurst
(London: Palgrave, 2000) pps 100-128
General Works
* Aristotle, Poetics (London: Penguin, 2003 – or any edition is fine)
* Steven Earnshaw (ed.), The Handbook of Creative Writing (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, ed. by Frank Kermode ( New
York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux, 1975 [1st pub. 1919])
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* E.M Forster, Aspects of the Novel (London: Penguin, 1927 [this ed. 1986])
* George Higgins, On Writing (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1990)
George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (London: Chicago University Press, 1980)
* David Lodge The Art of Fiction (London: Penguin, 1994)
David Lodge, The Practice of Writing (London: Vintage 2011)
David Lodge, Consciousness and the Novel (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)
* Longinus, ‘On Sublimity’, in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism ed. by Vincent Leitch et. al.
(London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001)
John Mullan, How Novels Work (Oxford: OUP, 2008)
Stephen Pressfield, The War of Art (London: Orion, 2003)
* Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, in The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe ed. by G.R.
Thompson (London: W.W. Norton & Co.) pp. 675-684
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1934 [this ed. 1993])
* Susan Sontag, ‘Against Interpretation’, in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode,1961 [this ed. 1967])
* James Wood, How Fiction Works (London: Jonathan Cape, 2008)
Edward Young, ‘Conjectures on Original Composition, In a Letter to the Author of “Sir Charles Grandison”’, in
The Great Critics: an Anthology of Literary Criticism (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1967 [first published in
1759])
Writers on Writing
* Paris Review, The Paris Review Interviews, 4 vols (London: Canongate, 2006-2010)
(also online – see www.parisreview.org/interviews)
Miriam Allott, Novelists on the Novel (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1959)
Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (New York: Vintage, 2002)
Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: a Writer on Writing (Cambridge: CUP, 2002)
* John Fowles, ‘Notes on an Unfinished Novel’, in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction,
ed. by Malcolm Bradbury (London: Fontana, 1990 [essay 1st pub. 1977])
Alan Garner, The Voice That Thunders: Essay and Lectures. (London: The Harvill Press, 1997)
Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway on Writing, ed. by Larry W. Phillips (New York: Touchstone, 1984)
* Henry James, ‘The Art of Fiction’, Longmans Magazine 4 (September 1884).
* Stephen King, On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft (London: New English Library, 2001)
Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel (London: Faber and Faber, 1986 [this ed. 1988])
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
(Boston: Shambhala, 2004)
Elmore Leonard, ‘Ten Rules of Writing: Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially
Hooptedoodle’, New York Times, July 16th 2001
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Lorrie Moore, ‘How to Become a Writer’, in Self Help (London: Faber & Faber, 1985)
George Orwell, Why I Write, (London: Penguin, 1946 [this ed. 2004])
Philip Roth, Shop Talk: a Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work (London: Vintage, 2001)
* Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction. (New York: Touchstone, 1924 [this ed. 1998])
* Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Oxford: OUP, 1929 [this ed. 2008])
Plotting & Narrative Structure
Roland Barthes, ‘Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives’, in Image, Music, Text (London:
Fontana, 1977)
James Scott Bell, Plot and Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot that Grips Readers from Start
to Finish (London: Writer's Digest Books, 2005)
* Christopher Brooker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (London: Continuum, 2005)
Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992)
* Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949 [this ed.
1973])
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art (New York: Farrer, Strauss & Giroux, 1998
[this ed. 2010])
* Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (London: Methuen,
1999)
* Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters (London: Pan
Books, 1992)
Basics – Elements of Composition
David Brundage and Michael Lahey, Acting on Words: an Integrated Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
(Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004)
Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One (London: Harper Collins, 2011)
* William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style (London: Longman, 2008 [first pub. 1959])
CW Theory, Research, ‘Research as Practice’ & Pedagogy
Rosanne Bane, ‘The Writer’s Brain: What Neurology Tells Us about Teaching Creative Writing’, Creative
Writing: Teaching Theory & Practice Vol. 2. No. 1, February 2010
* Estelle Barrett & Barbara Bolt (eds.), Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (London: I.B.
Taurus & Co., 2010)
John Barth, ‘Writing: Can it be Taught?’, New York Times, June 16, 1985.
Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom, (eds.), Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and
Pedagogy (Urbana, IL: NCTE 1994)
Paul Dawson, ‘Towards a New Poetics in Creative Writing Pedagogy’, TEXT Vol. 7, No. 1, April 2003
* Paul Dawson, Creative Writing and the New Humanities (London: Routledge, 2004)
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Roger Dead and Hazel Smith (eds.), Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Elliot Eisner, ‘Should Novels Count as Dissertations in Education?’, Research in the Teaching of English, Vol.
30, No. 4 (Dec., 1996) pp. 403-427
Juliet England, ‘Writing Wrongs’, Creative Writing: Teaching Theory & PracticeVol. 1, No. 1, March 2009
Nick Everett, "Creative Writing and English," The Cambridge Quarterly 34 (3) pps 231-242, 2005
David Fenza, ‘Creative Writing and Its Discontents’, Writing in Education 22, Spring 2000 pps 8-18
Marcelle Freiman, ‘Crossing the Boundaries of the Discipline: a Post-Colonial Approach to the Teaching of
Creative Writing’, TEXT Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2001
Daniel Green, ‘Not Merely Academic: Creative Writing and Literary Study’, REAL: The Journal of Liberal Arts
Vol. 28, No. 2 2003 pps 43-62
* Graeme Harper (ed.), Teaching Creative Writing (London: Continuum, 2006)
Graeme Harper, ‘Research in Creative Writing’, in Teaching Creative Writing, ed. by Graeme Harper (London:
Continuum, 2006)
Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll (eds.), Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy (New Writing
Viewpoints) (Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2008)
Kate Kostelnik, ‘Revisions from Within: the Potential of PhDs in Creative Writing’, Creative Writing: Teaching
Theory and Practice Vol. 2 No. 1 Feb 2010.
* Patricia Leavy, Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (New York: The Guildford Press, 2008)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, ‘The Strangeness of Creative Writing: an Institutional Query’, Pedagogy: Critical
Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture, Vol 3, No. 2, 2003 pps 151-169
* Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Boston: Harvard
University Press, 2009)
Tim Mayers, (Re)writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Louis Menand, ‘Show and Tell-Should Creative Writing be Taught?’, The New Yorker Magazine, June 8, 2009
Andrew Motion, ‘Creative Writing’, English Subject Centre Newsletter, No. 1, February 2001 pps 17-18
* Joseph Moxley (ed.) Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy (Urbana: NCTE, 1989)
Janet Murray, ‘Can You Teach Creative Writing?’, The Guardian, 10 May, 2011
* National Association of Writers in Education, Creative Writing Subject Benchmark Statement (available at
www.nawe.co.uk)
Rebecca O’Rourke, Creative Writing: Education, Culture and Community (London: National Institute of Adult
Continuing Education, 2005)
Alex Phelby, ‘The Myth of Isolation: Its Effect on Literary Culture and Creative Writing as a Discipline’,
Creative Writing: Teaching Theory & Practice Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2010
Rob Pope, ‘Critical-Creative Rewriting’, in Teaching Creative Writing, ed. by Graeme Harper (London:
Continuum, 2006)
David Radavich, ‘Creative Writing in the Academy’, Profession (New York: Modern Language Association of
America), 2001 pps 106-12
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Kelly Ritter, ‘Professional Writers/Writing Professionals: Revamping Teacher Training in Creative Writing
Ph.D. programs’, College English 64 (2) 2001
* Laura Ramey, ‘Creative Writing and Critical Theory’, in The Creative Writing Handbook ed. by Steven
Earnshaw (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Laurel Richardson & Ernest Lockridge, ‘Fiction and Ethnography: a conversation’, Qualitative Inquiry 4, 1998
pp. 328-336
* Laurel Richardson, ‘Writing: A Method of Inquiry’, in Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd Edition), ed. by
Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000) pp. 923-949
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, ‘Circling the Text: Nomadic Writing Practices (Exploratory Writing as Research
Technique)’, Qualitative Enquiry 3 No. 4, Dec 1997, pp.403-415
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, ‘Nomadic Enquiry in the Smooth Spaces of the Field: a Preface’, International
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 10, 1997 pp. 175-189
Albert Saks, ‘Should Novels Count as Dissertations in Education?’ Research in the Teaching of English Vol.30,
No.4, December 1996
Mary Swander, Anne Leahy, Mary Cantrell, ‘Theories of Creativity and Creative Writing Pedagogy,’ in The
Creative Writing Handbook, ed. by Steven Earnshaw (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Peter Vandenberg, ‘Integrated Writing Programs in American Universities: Whither Creative Writing?’,
International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 1 No. 1, 2004
EN7032 Modern Literature and Literary Theory II
AIDS NARRATIVES
Weeks 14, 15, 16
(Sarah Graham)
1992 saw diagnosed cases of AIDS reach an all-time high in the USA following a rapid climb since the mid1980s. The epidemic appeared to be out of control and provoked widespread fear as well as intense anger.
To many observers, the ‘plague’ of AIDS revealed the actual limits of governmental concern for minorities
such as gay people, drug users and African Americans, who were most affected by the disease at this time.
This module presents a ‘snapshot’ of a specific place, time and issue through a variety of genres (novel,
drama, poetry, film) that all represent the experience of living with AIDS in the USA in the early 1990s, but
use diverse strategies to do so.
Primary Texts
David B. Feinberg, Eighty-Sixed (New York: Penguin, 1996).
Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats (London: Faber, 2002).
Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (London: Nick Hern, 2007).
Supplementary Primary Texts (Films)
Philadelphia, dir. Jonathan Demme (1993).
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Longtime Companion, dir. Norman René (1990).
The Living End, dir. Greg Araki (1992)
The university library holds copies of all texts and DVDs of the films. No particular edition of the texts is
required. The work by Thom Gunn can also be found in his Collected Poems (Faber).
Seminar 1
David B. Feinberg, Eighty-Sixed.
Film: Longtime Companion
Seminar 2
Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats.
Film: Philadelphia.
Seminar 3
Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2.
Film: The Living End.
A useful summary of the development of AIDS in the US and the issues it raises can be found on the Avert
website: http://www.avert.org/america.htm.
The Blackboard site for this module offers a range of links and electronic documents, with new material
added regularly.
Secondary texts (all held by the library in electronic or paper form)
Adnum, Mark, 'My Own Private New Queer Cinema' in Senses of Cinema:
<http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/34/new_queer_cinema.html>
Allen, Dennis, ‘Homosexuality and Narrative’, Modern Fiction Studies 41.3-4 (1995): 609-34.
Brophy, Sarah, Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (Toronto; London: University
of Toronto Press, 2004).
Chambers, Ross, Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2004).
Clum, John, ‘The Time Before the War: AIDS, Memory and Desire’, American Literature 62.4 (1990): 648-67.
Cohen, Peter F., Love and Anger: Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics (New York: Harrington Park Press,
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Corber, Robert J. 'Nationalizing the Gay Body: AIDS and Sentimental Pedagogy in Philadelphia', American
Literary History 15.1 (2003), 107-133.
Crimp, Douglas, AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism (Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT, 1988; repr. 1993).
-- Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT, 2004).
-- ‘Mourning and Militancy’, October 51 (1989), 3-18.
Curry, Renee (ed.), States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence and Social Change (New York: New York
Dean, James Joseph, 'Gays and Queers: From the Centering to the Decentering of Homosexuality in American
Films', Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 10.3 (2007) 363-86.
de Moor, Katrien, 'Diseased Pariahs and Difficult Patients: Humour and Sick Role Subversions in Queer in
HIV/AIDS Narratives', Cultural Studies 19.6 (2005) 737-754.
Dyer, Richard, Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film 2nd edn. (London; New York: Routledge, 2003).
Feinberg, David, Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone (London: Penguin, 1995).
Foertsch, Jacqueline, Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture
(Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2001).
Forester, C.Q., 'Re-experiencing Thom Gunn’, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 12.5 (Sept-Oct 2005), 1419.
Garcia Duttmann, Alexander, At Odds With AIDS: Thinking and Talking About A Virus (Stanford: Stanford
Geis, Deborah R and Steven F. Kruger (eds.), Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Gever, Martha, Pratibha Parmar and John Greyson, eds., Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film
and Video (New York; London: Routledge, 1993).
Gill, Peter, Body Count: How They Turned AIDS into a Catastrophe (London: Profile, 2006).
Gove, Ben, Cruising Culture: Promiscuity and Desire in Contemporary Gay Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
Griffin, Gabriele, Representations of HIV/AIDS: Visibility Blues (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2000).
Hoffman, Tyler B., ‘Representing AIDS: Thom Gunn and the Modalities of Verse’, South Atlantic Review, 65.2
(2000): 13-39.
Hunter, Susan, AIDS in America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Jarraway, David, ‘From Spectacular to Speculative: The Shifting Rhetoric in Recent Gay AIDS Memoirs’,
Mosaic, 33.4 (2000): 115-28.
Kramer, Larry, Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989).
Kruger, Steven, AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science (New York; London: Garland,
1996).
Landau, Deborah, ‘How to Live, What to Do: The Poetics and Politics of AIDS’, American Literature, 68.1
(1996): 193-225.
Long, Thomas L., AIDS and American Apocalypticism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005).
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McGrath, John, ‘Trusting in Rubber: Performing Boundaries during the AIDS Epidemic’, TDR: The Drama
Review, 39.2 (1995): 21-38.
Mills, Katie, 'Revitalizing the Road Genre' in The Road Movie Book edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark
(London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 307-329. Available as e-book via UoL Library.
Minton, Gretchen E., and Ray Schultz, ‘Angels in America: Adapting to a New Medium in a New
Millennium’, American Drama 15:1 (2006).
Murphy, Timothy F., Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1993).
Omer-Sherman, Ranen, ‘Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner's Angels in
America’ Shofar 25:4 (2007).
Omer-Sherman, Ranen. ‘The fate of the other in Tony Kushner's Angels in America’, MELUS 32:2 (2007).
Patton, Cindy, Inventing AIDS (New York; London: Routledge, 1990).
Pearl, Monica, 'Messy, but Innocuous: Philadelphia AIDS Case' in Screen Methods: Comparative Readings
in Film Studies, edited by Jacqueline Furby and Karen Randell (London: Wallflower Press, 2005).
Román, David, 'Remembering AIDS: A Reconsideration of the Film Longtime Companion', GLQ: A Journal of
Lesbian and Gay Studies 12.2 (2006) 281-301.
Savran, David, ‘Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How Angels in America Reconstructs
the Nation’, Theatre Journal 47:2 (1995).
Schulman, Sarah, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1998).
Shilts, Randy, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (London: Penguin, 1988).
Sinfield, Alan, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading (London: Routledge, 1994).
Sontag, Susan, AIDS and its Metaphors (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990).
Sturken, Marita, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering
(Berkeley: U of California P, 1997).
Treichler, Paula, How to have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (Durham; London: Duke
Tuss, Alex J., ‘Resurrecting Masculine Spirituality in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America’, The Journal of Men’s
Studies 5.1 (1996), 49-63.
Vorlicky, Robert (ed.), Tony Kushner in Conversation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998).
Whiteside, Alan, HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2008).
Woods, Gregory, A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (New Haven; London: Yale University Press,
1998) [see especially Chapter 31, ‘The AIDS Epidemic’].
Yingling, Thomas E., AIDS and the National Body (Durham; London: Duke University Press, 1997).
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Women's Travel Writing & Postcolonial Feminist Theory
Weeks 17, 18, 19
(Corinne Fowler)
These seminars will consider the challenges of theorising white women’s involvement in colonial and
imperialist ventures. They will examine critically the travel narratives of three sets of women from the early
eighteenth century to the present: women travellers to the harem (Turkey, India and Egypt), Beatrice
Grimshaw (Fiji) and Deborah Rodriguez (Afghanistan). Drawing on feminist reworkings of Said’s Orientalism
(1978) together with influential postcolonial thinkers such as Gayatri Spivak, Sara Mills, Meyda Yeg˘enog˘lu
and Reina Lewis, we will consider the complications, tensions and contradictions that have attended crosscultural feminist solidarities in three social, political and historical contexts.
Primary Texts
Foster, Shirley and Mills, Sara, An Anthology of Women’s Travel Writing (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2002, pp.28-64)
Beatrice Grimshaw, From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands (1907)
Deborah Rodriguez, The Kabul Beauty School (2007)
Required Reading in advance of the module
Lewis, Reina, ‘Feminism and Orientalism’, Feminist Theory (2002), pp. 211-219, to be provided as a photocopy
or available as an attachment from the tutor.
Seminar 1: Required Reading for Women Travellers to the Harem
Foster, Shirley and Mills, Sara, An Anthology of Women’s Travel Writing (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2002, pp.28-64)
Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism (London:
Routledge, 1991, pp.153-175)
Seminar 1: Additional Reading
Russell, Mary, The Blessings of A Good Thick Skirt (London: Flamingo Press, Women Travellers and Their
World, 1984)
Hulme, Peter and Youngs, Tim, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002), pp. 156-173
Sharpe, Jenny, ‘Figures of Colonial Resistance’ in Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader (London: Routledge, 1995)
Showalter, Elaine, A Literature of Their Own: From Bronte to Lessing (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1997)
Smith, Sidonie, ‘The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Beryl Markham in Kenya’ Sidonie Smith and Julia
Watson, eds., De/colonizing the Subject. The Politics of Gender in Women’s Autobiography (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1992)
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Seminar 2: Required Reading for Beatrice Grimshaw
Beatrice Grimshaw, From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands (1907) (available on amazon)
Said, Edward, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 1978, Introduction)
Seminar 2: Additional Reading for Beatrice Grimshaw
Buzard, James, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1993)
Clifford, James, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press)
Edmond, Rod, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gaugin (Cambridge: Cambridge
Fowler, Corinne, 'Feminist imperialism: travel writing and journalism past and present' in Yoke, ed. The
Politics of Gender (London: Routledge, 2009)
Fowler, Corinne, ‘Recuperating narratives with troublesome titles: a critical meta-commentary on the
problem of reading Beatrice Grimshaw’s From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands, Ecloga 5 (2006), pp. 25-45
Lawrence, Karen, Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition (London: Cornell,
1994)
Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism (London:
Routledge, 1992)
Pratt, Mary Louise, ‘Fieldwork in Common Places’ in Clifford and Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics
and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986)
Seminar 3: Required Reading for Deborah Rodriguez
Deborah Rodriguez, The Kabul Beauty School (2007)
Rostami-Povey, Elaheh, Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion (London: Zed Books), pp. 1-39; pp. 59-74
Usamah, Ansari, ‘“Should I go and pull her burqa off?’ Feminist compulsions, insider consent and a Return to
Kandahar’, Critical Studies in Media Communication 25:1 (2008), pp. 48-67. Available electronically at:
www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a790459872~db=all~jumptype=rss
Seminar 3: Additional Reading for Deborah Rodriguez
Ahmed, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam (Yale: Yale University Press, 1992)
Boehmer, Elleke, Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press) pp. xv-xxxvi
Fowler, Corinne, Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)
Huggan, Graham, The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (London: Routledge, 2001)
Khalid, Adeeb, Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2007). See especially ‘The Soviet Assault on Islam’, pp. 51-83
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Lewis, Reina and Mills, Sara, Feminist Postcolonial Theory. A Reader. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2003)
Macrory, Patrick, Kabul Catastrophe: The Invasion and Retreat, 1839-1842 (London: Prion, 2002), especially
material on Lady Sale’s travel narrative
Mahmood, Saba, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Renewal and the Feminist Subject (Princeton: Princeton
University Press), pp. 1-39
Said, Edward, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 1978), pp. 1-30
Saikal, Amin, Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival (London: IB Tauris, 2006)
Shah, Saira, The Storyteller’s Daughter (London: Penguin, 2003)
Tanner, Stephen, Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander the Great to The War Against the Taliban
(Da Capo Press, 2009)
Lamb, Christina, The Sewing Circles of Herat (London: Harper Collins, 2002)
Kabbani, Rana, Imperial Fictions: Europe’s Myth of Orient (London: Saqi, 2008)
Warnock Fernea, Elizabeth, In Search of Islamic Feminism (New York: Anchor, 1998)
Yeg˘enog˘ lu, Meyda, Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
General Background Reading
Ahmed, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1992)
Behar, Ruth and Gordon, Deborah, Women Writing Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Boehmer, Elleke, Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press)
Lewis, Reina and Mills, Sara, Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2003)
Loomba, Ania, Colonialism / Postcolonialism (London: Routledge, 1998)
McLeod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: an analysis of women’s travel writing and colonialism
Routledge, 1991)
(London:
Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992)
Quayson, Ato, Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (Cambridge: Polity, 2000)
Spivak, Gayatari, Landry, Donna and MacLean, Gerald, The Spivak Reader (London: Routledge, 1996)
Yeg˘enog˘ lu, Meyda, Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Young, Robert, Postcolonialism (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 360-383
Youngs, Tim and Hooper, Glynn, Perspectives on Travel Writing (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Youngs, Tim, Travel writing in the Nineteenth Century (London: Anthem, 2006)
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Youngs, Tim and Hulme, Peter, Talking about Travel Writing: A Conversation Between Peter Hulme and Tim
Youngs (Leicester: English Association)
A Genre: THE COSMOPOLITAN NOVEL
Weeks 20, 21, 22
(Alberto Fernández Carbajal)
In this first part of the module we will delve into the genre of the cosmopolitan novel, often considered a
branch of postcolonial literature and featuring issues of migration, alienation, multiculturalism and artistic
experimentation. Cosmopolitan voices have often been placed at the forefront of the literary avant-garde,
yet their complex migrant perspectives, typically positioned at the crossroads, have also been taken to task
by materialist postcolonial critics for being too aestheticizing, for lacking political commitment, or for being
the product of economic privilege. By looking at the three novels in question, Jean Rhys’s Good Morning,
Midnight, Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, you will be able to assess the
cosmopolitan novel from the era of high modernism to postmodern and contemporary times. These novels’
complex exploration of the modern nation will allow you to interrogate issues of national identity, and their
investment in the possibilities of art for the representation of the fragmented yet fluid self and its
relationship with others will encourage you to think about the role of migrant writers and artists in
contemporary multicultural societies. The cosmopolitan novel will thus emerge as a site of compromise and
resistance, in which the merging of various cultural traditions creates a new form of hybrid writing, always
assessing various political positions and refusing to condone cultural and political extremes.
Primary texts
Rhys, Jean, Good Morning, Midnight (1939) (Suggested edition: Penguin)
Rushdie, Salman, The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) (Suggested edition: Vintage)
Smith, Zadie, On Beauty (2005) (Suggested edition: Penguin)
Secondary sources
On Jean Rhys
Angier, Carole, Jean Rhys: Life and Work (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990)
Britzolakis, Christina, ‘“This Way to the Exhibition”: Genealogies of Urban Spectacle in Jean Rhys’s Interwar
Fiction’, Textual Practice, 21.3 (2007), 457-82
Carr, Helen, Jean Rhys (Plymouth: Northcote, 1996)
Condé, Maryse, Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English (London: Macmillan, 1999)
Davidson, Arnold E., ‘The Dark is Light Enough: Affirmation from Despair in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning,
Midnight’, Contemporary Literature, 24.3 (1983), 349-364
Howells, Coral Ann, Jean Rhys (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)
Joannou, Maroula, ‘“Alright, I’ll do Anything for Good Clothes”: Jean Rhys and Fashion, Women: A Cultural
Review, 23.4 (2012), 463
King, Bruce, West Indian Literature (London: Macmillan, 1995)
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Linett, Maren, ‘“New Words, New Everything”: Fragmentation and Trauma in Jean Rhys’, Twentieth Century
Literature, 51.4 (2005), 437-66
Rosenberg, Leah, ‘Caribbean Models for Modernism in the Work of Claude McKay and Jean Rhys’,
Modernism/Modernity, 11.2 (2004), 219-238
Savory, Elaine, Jean Rhys (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)
Wainwright, Laura, ‘“Doesn’t that Make You Laugh?”: Modernist Comedy in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr
Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight’, Journal of International Women’s Studies, 10.3 (2009), 48
On Salman Rushdie
Brennan, Timothy, Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation (London: Macmillan, 1989)
Burningham, Bruce R., Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Consumer Culture (Nashville: Vanderbilt
Didur, Jill, ‘Secularism beyond the East/West Divide: Literary Reading, Ethics, and The Moor’s Last Sigh’,
Textual Practice, 18.4 (2004), 541-62.
Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A., Salman Rushdie (London: Macmillan, 1998)
Gorra, Michael, After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
Herbert, Caroline, ‘Spectrality and Secularism in Bombay Fiction: Salman Rushdie’s The Moor's Last Sigh and
Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games’, Textual Practice, 26.5 (2012), 941-71
Mufti, Aamir, Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
Rubinson, G. J., The Fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson and Carter: Breaking Cultural and Literary
Boundaries in the Work of Four Postmodernists (Jefferson: McFarland, 2005)
Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 (London: Granta, 1992)
___, Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 (London: Vintage, 2003)
Schultheis, Alexandra W., Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family
(London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Teverson, Andew, Salman Rushdie (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Yacoubi, Youssef, ‘Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie: Resisting the Ambivalence of Postcolonial
Theory’, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 25 (2005), 193-218
On Zadie Smith
Edemariam, Aida, ‘Learning Curve’, The Guardian Online,
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/sep/03/fiction.zadiesmith> [accessed 23 July 2013]
Fernández Carbajal, Alberto, ‘“A Liberal Susceptibility to the Pains of Others”: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Haiti,
and the Limits of a Forsterian Intervention’, ARIEL, 43.3 (2012), 35-57
Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook and Zadie Smith,’ Zadie Smith with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina’, in Writing
Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk, ed. by Susheila Nasta (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 26678.
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Kermode, Frank, ‘Here She Is’, London Review of Books [online], <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n19/frankkermode/here-she-is> [accessed 23 July 2013].
McCabe, Colin, ‘Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie: Writing for a New World’, Open Democracy [online],
<http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/rushdie_2907.jsp> [accessed 23 July 2013]
Nunius, Sabine, ‘“Sameness” in Contemporary British Fiction: (Metaphorical) Families in Zadie Smith’s On
Beauty (2005)’, in Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in Literature, Film and the Arts, ed. by Lars
Eckstein et al (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi), pp. 109-22
Smith, Zadie, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2009)
Tew, Philip, Zadie Smith (London and New York: Palgrave, 2010)
Tolan, Fiona, ‘Identifying the Precious in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty’, in British Fiction Today, ed. by Philip Tew
and Rod Mengham (London: Continuum), pp. 128-38
Walters, Tracey. L., (ed.), Zadie Smith: Critical Essays (New York: Peter Lang, 2008)
General reading
Ahmad, Aijaz, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London: Verso, 1992)
Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis and London:
University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, 2nd edn. (Oxford and New York:
OUP, 2005)
Chibber, Vivek, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (London and New York: Verso, 2013)
Chrisman, Laura, Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)
Connor, Steven, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)
Deane, Seamus, (ed.), Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1990)
Derrida, Jacques and Anne Dufourmantelle, Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to
Respond, translated by R. Bowlby (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)
Genette, Gérard, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, translated by C. Newman and C. Doubinsky
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997)
Gilroy, Paul, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2001)
Hai, Ambreen, Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Athens: Ohio
Hallward, Peter, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (London and New York:
Verso, 2007)
Huggan, Graham, The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
Levenson, Michael, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)
Lewis, Pericles, Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 2000)
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Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, translated by G. Bennington and
B. Massumi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984)
McHale, Brian, Postmodernist Fiction (New York: Methuen, 1987)
McLeod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, 2nd edn. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press,
2010)
Morey, Peter and Alex Tickell, (eds.), Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism (Amsterdam and
New York: Rodopi, 2005)
Mufti, Aamir, ‘Global Comparativism’, Critical Inquiry, 31.2 (2005), 472-89.
Mukherjee, Arun, ‘Whose Postcolonialism and Whose Postmodernism?’ World Literature Written in English,
30.2 (1990), 1-9
Parry, Benita, Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (London: Routledge, 2004)
Quayson, Ato, Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (Oxford: Polity, 2000)
Said, Edward W., Humanism and Democratic Criticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Slemon, Stephen, ‘Modernism’s Last Post’, ARIEL, 20.4 (1989), 3- 17
Spencer, Robert, Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (London and New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011)
Srivastava, Neelam, Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in
English (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)
Thacker, Andrew, Moving through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (Manchester: Manchester
Thieme, John, Postcolonial Con-texts: Writing Back to the Canon (London: Continuum, 2001)
Wilson, Janet, Cristina Şandru, C. and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds., Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions
for the New Millenium (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010)
Young, Robert J. C., Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
Option Module II (FT and PT2)
EN7132 LITERATURE IN EXILE: AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS
(Paul Jenner)
Preliminary Reading
Primary texts:
1. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Babylon Revisited’.
3. Gertrude Stein, ‘Tender Buttons’.
4. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer.
5. Anaïs Nin, Henry and June.
6. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.
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Good introductions to the subject are Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return (Penguin) and Chapter 8 of Malcolm
Bradbury, Dangerous Pilgrimages (Penguin).
Seminar Schedule (*items = distributed photocopies)
1. Paris and American Exile
Extracts from:
Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return (1934). *
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). *
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1936). *
Adam Gopnik, From Paris to the Moon (2000). *
Edmund White, The Flâneur (2001). *
2. The Lost Generation
Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (1925) [Arrow].
F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Babylon Revisited’ (1931). *
3. Modernist Experimentation
Gertrude Stein, ‘Tender Buttons’ (1914), ‘Geography’ (1923). *
A Selection of Imagist and Avant-Garde Poetry. *
4. Sexuality and Fiction
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (w. 1934) [Flamingo].
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (w. 1932) [Penguin].
5. African Americans in Paris
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956) [Penguin].
Richard Wright, extracts from The Outsider (1953). *
Shay Youngblood, extracts from Black Girl in Paris (2000). *
Secondary Reading
General
Benstock, Shari, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 (London: Virago, 1986).
Bernard, Catherine, Afro-American Artists in Paris, 1919-1939 (New York: Hunter College Art Galleries, 1989).
Bradbury, Malcolm, The Expatriate Tradition in American Literature (Durham: BAAS Paperbacks, 1982).
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--------, Dangerous Pilgrimages: Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the American Novel (London: Penguin, 1996).
Campbell, James, Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank, 1946-1960
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1994).
Carpenter, Humphrey, Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s (London: Unwin, 1987).
Chambers, Iain, Migrancy, Culture, Identity (London: Routledge, 1994).
Cate, Phillip & Mary Shaw, The Spirit of Montmatre: Caberets, Humor and the Avant-Garde,1875-1905 (NJ,
Voorheer Zimmerli Art Museum, 1996).
Cronin, Vincent, Paris: City of Light, 1919-1939 (London: HarperCollins, 1994).
Fabre, Michel, From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (Urbana, IL: University of
Illinois Press, 1991).
Fitch, Noel Riley, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
(New York: Norton, 1983).
Gambrell, Alice, Women Intellectuals, Modernism and Difference (Cambridge U.P., 1997).
Halliwell, Martin, Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction (London:
Palgrave, 2001); you will also find this published in paperback (with an updated conclusion) with the title
Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
Hansen, Arlen, Expatriate Paris: A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s (New York: Little, Brown,
1990).
Karnow, Stanley, Paris in the Fifties (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999).
Kennedy, Gerald, Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
1993).
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, et al, eds, Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
U.P., 1998).
Lee, Brian, American Fiction 1865-1940 (London: Longman, 1987).
Lee, Jennifer, ed., Paris in Mind (New York: Vintage, 2003)
Lemke, Sieglinde, Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (Oxford:
Oxford U.P., 1998).
Lotman, Herbert R., The Left bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
Massa, Ann & Alaistair Stead, ed., Forked Tongues? (London: Longman, 1994).
McMahon, Joseph, ‘City for Expatriates’, Yale French Studies, 32 (1964), 144-58.
Méral, Jean, Paris in American Literature, trans Laurette Long (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 1989).
Minter, David, A Cultural History of the American Novel: James to Faulkner (Cambridge U.P., 1994).
Montefiore, Jan, Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (London: Routledge, 1996).
Moore, Harry, Age of the Modern and Other Literary Essays (Carbondale, IL: South Illinois U.P., 1971).
Morton, Brian, Americans in Paris (Ann Arbor, MI: Olivia & Hill, 1986).
Pizer, Donald, American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place (Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State U.P., 1996)
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Roth, Joseph, The White Cities: Reports from Paris 1925-39 (London: Granta, 1999)
Sawyer-Lauçanne, Christopher, The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 (San
Francisco: City Lights, 1992)
Stovall, Tyler, Paris Noir: African-Americans in the City of Light (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
Tucker, Martin, Literary Exile in the Twentieth Century: An Analysis and Biographical Dictionary (New York:
Greenwood, 1991).
Wickes, George, Americans in Paris (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969).
Week 1: Memoirs & Journals
Baker, Josephine & Jo Bouillon, Josephine (New York: Paragon House, 1995).
Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood (London: Faber & Faber, 1988).
Beach, Sylvia, Shakespeare and Company (London: Faber, 1960).
Callaghan, Morley, That Summer in Paris (London: MacKinnon, 1963).
Cowley, Malcolm, Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas (New York: Penguin, 1992).
Dos Passos, John, The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (New York: Deutsch, 1966)
cummings, e.e., i - six nonlectures (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 1953).
Fitzgerald, Zelda, The Collected Writings, ed. Matthew Bruccoli (Abacus, 1991).
Flanner, Janet, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (New York: Viking, 1972).
Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast (New York: Scribner’s, 1960).
Josephson, Matthew, Life Among the Surrealists (New York: Rinehart, 1962).
Loeb, Harold, The Way It Was (New York: Criterion, 1959).
Munson, Gorham, The Awakening Twenties: A Memoir-History of a Literary Period (Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State U.P., 1985).
Putnam, Samuel, Paris Was Our Mistress (Carbondale, IL: South Illinois U.P., 1947).
Stearns, Harold, The Street I Know (New York: Lee Furman, 1935).
Stein, Gertrude, Paris France: Personal Recollections (Covelo: Yolla Bolly, 1971).
-------------, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (London: Penguin, 1996).
Toklas, Alice B., What is Remembered (London: Cardinal, 1989).
Week 2: Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald
Baker, Carlos, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, 4th edn, (U Chicago Press, 1972).
Beach, Joseph, American Fiction, 1920-1940 (New York: Russell & Russell, 1960).
Bloom, Harold, Ernest Hemingway (New York: Chelsea House, 1985).
Bruccoli, Matthew, Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success (London: Bodley
Head, 1978).
----------, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981).
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----------, Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship (New York: Deutsch, 1995).
Bryer, Jackson, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (U of Wisconsin Press, 1982)
Comley, Nancy, Hemingway’s Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (New Haven, CT: Yale U.P., 1994).
Donaldson, Scott, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway (C.U.P., 1996).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Crack Up and Other Stories (London: Penguin, 1965).
Goldhurst, William, F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Contemporaries (World Pub. Co., 1963)
Griffin, Peter, Along with Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years (Oxford U.P., 1985)
Gurko, Leo, Ernest Hemingway and the Pursuit of Heroism (Cornell U.P., 1986).
Hemingway, Ernest, By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches (Collins, 1968).
----------, Death in the Afternoon (London: Cape, 1932).
----------, In Our Time (New York: Scribner’s, 1986).
----------, The Sun Also Rises/Fiesta (New York: Scribner’s, 1986).
Leff, Leonard J., Hemingway and His Conspirators (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
Messent, Peter, Ernest Hemingway (London: Macmillan, 1992).
Miller, James, F. Scott Fitzgerald: His Art and Technique (New York U.P., 1963).
Nagel, James, ed., Ernest Hemingway: Writer in Context (U. Wisconsion Press, 1984).
Prigozy, Ruth, ed., The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (C.U.P., 2002)
Reynolds, Michael, Hemingway: The Paris Years (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
Spilka, Mark, Hemingway’s Quarrel With Androgyny (U. of Nebraska Press, 1990).
Watts, Emily, Ernest Hemingway and the Arts (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1971)
Way, Brian, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction (London: Arnold, 1980).
Williams, Wirt, The Tragic Art of Ernest Hemingway (U. State Louisiana Press, 1981).
Wylder, Delbert, Hemingway’s Heroes (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 1961).
Week 3: Gertrude Stein & Avant-Garde Writing
Brinnin, John, The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World (P. Smith, 1968)
Caws, Mary Ann, et al., eds, Surrealist Women (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
Crunden, Robert, American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917 (Oxford: Oxford U.P.,
1993).
DeKoven, Marianne, A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experimental Writing (Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1983).
Dydo, Ulla, ed., A Stein Reader (Evanston: Northwestern U.P., 1993).
Galvin, Mary, Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers (NY: Praeger, 1999).
Gygax, Franziska, Gender and Genre in Gertrude Stein (Greenwood Press, 1998).
Hobhouse, Janet, Everybody who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein (New York: Putnam, 1975).
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Hoffman, Michael,The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (Philadelphia, PA:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965).
Jones, Peter, ed., Imagism (London: Penguin, 1972).
Kostelanetz, Richard, Gertrude Stein Advanced: An Anthology of Criticism (London: McFarland, 1990).
Motherwell, Robert, The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (New York, 1951).
Neuman, S. C., Gertrude Stein: Autobiography and the Problem of Narration (1979).
Quartermain, Peter, Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge:
Cambridge U.P., 1992).
Stein, Gertrude, Tender Buttons (New York: Claire Marie, 1914).
---------, Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces 1913-1927 (Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1969).
---------, Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1909-45 (London: Penguin, 1971).
---------, Paris, France: Personal Recollections (London: Peter Owen, 1971).
---------, Picasso (New York: Dover, 1984).
Steiner, Wendy, Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary Portraiture Of Gertrude Stein (New
Haven, CT: Yale U.P., 1978).
Tashjian, Dickran, A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950 (London:
Thames & Hudson, 1995).
Watson, Steven, Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde (New York: Abbeville, 1991).
Weinstein, Norman, Gertrude Stein and the Literature of the Modern Consciousness (New York: Ungar, 1970).
Week 4: Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin
Cross, Robert, Henry Miller: The Paris Years (Big Sur, CA: PeerAmid Press, 1991).
Ferguson, Robert, Henry Miller: A Life (London: Hutchinson, 1991).
Fitch, Noel Riley, Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993).
Franklin, Benjamin & Duane Schneider, Anaïs Nin: An Introduction (Athens, OH: Ohio U.P., 1979).
Gordon, William, The Mind and Art of Henry Miller (London: Cape, 1968).
Hinz, Evelyn, The Mirror and the Garden: Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anaïs Nin (New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1973).
Mailer, Norman, Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (New York: Grove,
1976).
Miller, Henry, The Best of Henry Miller, ed. Lawrence Durrell (Heinemann, 1971).
--------, Selected Prose (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965).
--------, Letters to Anaïs Nin, ed. Gunter Stuhlmann (New York: Sheldon Press, 1979).
--------, Tropic of Cancer (London: Flamingo, 1993).
--------, Tropic of Capricorn (London: Flamingo, 1993).
Millet, Kate, Sexual Politics (London: Hart-Davis, 1971).
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Mitchell, Edward, ed., Henry Miller: 3 Decades of Criticism (New York U.P., 1971).
Moore, Harry T., Age of the Modern and Other Literary Essays (S. Illinois U.P., 1971).
Nin, Anaïs, Anaïs Nin Reader, ed., Philip K. Jason (London: Peter Owen, 1973).
--------, Delta of Venus (London: Penguin, 1978).
--------, Henry and June (London: Penguin, 1998).
--------, A Woman Speaks (London: Penguin, 1996).
Stulmann, Gunter, ed., The Journals of Anaïs Nin, 7 Vols (Peter Owen, 1966-1980).
Wickes, George, Henry Miller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966).
Week 5: James Baldwin & Richard Wright
Baldwin, James, Giovanni’s Room (London: Penguin, 1990).
--------, Notes of a Native Son [1964] (London: Penguin, 1995).
--------, Nobody Knows My Name [1964] (London: Penguin, 1991).
Balfour, Laurie, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 2001).
Bloom, Harold, ed., James Baldwin (New York: Chelsea House, 1986).
-------- ed., Richard Wright: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1987).
Campbell, James, Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and others on the Left Bank, 1946-1960
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1994).
--------, Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett And Others on the Left Bank (New York:
Scribner’s, 1995) [a reprint of the above title].
Chametzky, Jules, ed., Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin (Amherst, MA:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1989).
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. & K. A. Appiah, Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (New York:
Amistad, 1993).
Gibson, Donald, ed., Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and LeRoi Jones (New
York: New York U.P., 1970).
Gounard, Jean-Francois, The Racial Problem in the Works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, trans. Joseph
Rodgers (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992).
Kenan, Randall, James Baldwin (New York: Chelsea House, 1994).
Kinnamon, Keith, The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in Literature and Society (Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 1972).
Kollhofer, Jakob, ed., James Baldwin: His Place in American Literary History and His Reception in Europe (New
York: Peter Lang, 1991).
Leeming, David, James Baldwin: A Biography (London: Michael Joseph, 1994).
Polsgrove, Carol, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (2001).
Porter, Horace, Stealing Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan U.P., 1989).
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Smith, Valerie, Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 1987).
Troupe, Quincey, ed., James Baldwin: The Legacy (New York: Touchstone, 1989).
Wright, Richard, ‘American Negroes in France’, Crisis (June-July 1951), 381-83.
--------, The Outsider (New York: HarperCollins, [1953] 1993).
--------, Eight Men (New York: HarperCollins, [1961] 1996).
EN7133: POETRY WRITING AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Weeks 14, 16, 18, 20, 22
(Nick Everett)
All primary reading will be distributed on handouts at the start of the course. Here are some recommended
titles on the subjects the course covers; they include works giving advice on poetic composition as well as
anthologies of, and critical works about, contemporary poetry.
Poetry Writing
Bell, Julia & Paul Magrs, eds., The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for
Poetry and Prose (London: Macmillan, 2001).
Birkett, Julian, Word Power: A Guide to Creative Writing, 3rd ed (London: A & C Black, 1998).
Casterton, Julia, Creative Writing: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1998).
Chisholm, Alison, The Craft of Writing Poetry (London: Allison and Busby, 1992).
Mills, Paul, Writing in Action (London: Routledge, 1996).
--------, The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook (London: Routledge, 2005).
Newman, Jenny, Edmund Cusick & Aileen La Tourette, eds., The Writer’s Workbook (London: Arnold, 2000).
Sansom, Peter, Writing Poems (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1994).
Singleton, John, & Mary Luckhurst, eds., The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers, 2nd ed
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000).
Singleton, John, The Creative Writing Workbook (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Wolf, Robert, Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life (OUP, 2001).
Anthologies
British and Irish
Armitage, Simon, & Robert Crawford, The Penguin Book of British and Irish Poetry Since 1945
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998).
Crozier, Andrew, & Tim Longville (eds), A Various Art (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987).
Herbert, W.N., & Matthew Hollis (eds), Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Newcastle upon
Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2000).
Hulse, Michael, David Kennedy & David Morley, eds., The New Poetry (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,
1993).
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Morrison, Blake & Andrew Motion, eds., The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1982).
American
Allen, Donald, ed., The New American Poetry (New York: Grove Press, 1960).
Hoover, Paul, ed., Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (New York: Norton, 1994).
Poulin, Jr., A., & Michael Waters, eds., Contemporary American Poetry, 7th ed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2001).
Criticism
British and Irish
Corcoran, Neil, English Poetry Since 1940 (Harlow: Longman, 1993).
Duncan, Andrew, The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (Cambridge: Salt, 2003).
Maynard, Jessica, ‘British Poetry 1956 – 99’ in Clive Bloom & Gary Day, eds., Literature and Culture in Modern
Britain, vol 3 (Harlow: Longman, 2000).
O’Brien, Sean, The Deregulated Muse (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1998).
American
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995).
Longenbach, James, Modern Poetry after Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Perelman, Bob, The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1995).
Vendler, Helen, Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995).
An Issue: Reference
Altieri, Charles, Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry in the 1960s (Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1979).
Bayley, John, ‘The Poetry of John Ashbery’ and ‘The Last Romantic: Philip Larkin’ in Selected Essays
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Bayley, John, ‘Larkin and the Romantic Tradition’ in The Order of Battle at Trafalgar and Other Essays
(London: Collins Harvill, 1987).
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995).
Draper, R.P., ‘Experiment and Tradition: Concrete Poetry, John Ashbery and Philip Larkin’ in An Introduction
to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).
Herd, David, John Ashbery and American Poetry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
Hoover, Paul, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (New York: Norton, 1994).
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Kirby-Smith, H.T., The Origins of Free Verse (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
A Genre: Elegy
Dolan, John, ‘A Refusal to Mourn: Stevens and the Self-Centered Elegy’, Journal of Modern Literature, vol 21,
no 2 (1997), 209-222.
Gilbert, Sandra M., ed., Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (New York: Norton, 2001).
Pigman, G.W., Grief and English Renaissance Elegy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Ramazani, Jahan, Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1994).
Sacks, Peter M., The English Elegy: Studies in Genre from Spenser to Yeats (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Shaw, W. David, Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994).
Smith, Eric, By Mourning Tongues: Studies in English Elegy (London: Boydell Press, 1977).
Spargo, R. Clifton, The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac
Hopkins, 2004).
Literature (Baltimore: Johns
Staten, Henry, Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2001).
Strand, Mark, & Eavan Boland, eds., The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (New York:
Norton, 2000).
Watkin, William, On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2004).
Zeiger, Melissa F., Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality and the Changing Shapes of Elegy (Ithaca: Cornell
A Mode: Narrative
Bold, Alan, TheBallad (London: Methuen, 1979).
Feirstein, Frederick, ed., Expansive Poetry: Essays on the New Narrative and the New Formalism (Ashland,
Oregon: Story Line Press, 1989).
Gioia, Dana, ‘The Dilemma of the Long Poem’, in Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture
(St Paul, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 1992).
Gwynn, R.S., ed., New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, History (Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 1999).
Holden, Jonathan, ‘Contemporary Verse Storytelling’ in The Fate of American Poetry (Athens, Georgia:
University of Georgia Press, 1991).
Jarman, Mark, ‘Aspects of Robinson’ in Annie Finch, ed., After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and
Tradition (Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 1999).
Mason, David, ‘Other Voices, Other Lives’ in Annie Finch, ed., After New Formalism (Ashland, Oregon: Story
Line Press, 1999).
Perloff, Marjorie, ‘From Image to Action: The Return of Story in Postmodern Poetry’ in The Dance of the
Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press,
1996).
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Reid, Christopher, ed., Not to Speak of the Dog: 101 Short Stories in Verse (London: Faber and Faber, 2000).
Roberts, Neil, Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (Harlow: Longman, 1999).
Snodgrass, W.D., ‘The Folk Ballad’ in Annie Finch & Kathrine Varnes, eds., An Exaltation of Forms:
Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2002).
Norton, 2000).
A Subject: Landscape
Allister, Mark, Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography (Charlottesville, University of
Virginia Press, 2001).
Alpers, Paul, What Is Pastoral? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Armbruster, Karla, & Kathleen R. Wallace, eds., Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of
Ecocriticism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001).
Barry, Peter, Contemporary British Poetry and the City (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
Bate, Jonathan, The Song of the Earth (London: Picador, 2000).
Buell, Lawrence, The Environmental Imagination (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
1995).
Elkins, Andrew, Another Place: An Ecocritical Study of Selected Western American Poets (Fort Worth: Texas
Christian University Press, 2002).
Fletcher, Angus, A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment and the Future of
Imagination (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Gifford, Terry, Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry (Manchester: Manchester
Gilcrest, David. W., Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics (Reno: University of Nevada Press,
2002).
Oswald, Alice, ed., The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (London: Faber and Faber, 2005).
Rasula, Jed, This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia
Press, 2002).
Rooda, Randall, Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing (Albany, New York:
State University of New York Press, 1998).
Scheese, Don, Nature Writing (London: Routledge, 2002).
Scigaj, Leonard M., Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of
Kentucky, 1999).
Snyder, Gary, The Practice of the Wild: Essays (New York: North Point Press, 1990).
--------, A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 1996).
A Form: Villanelle
Adams, Stephen, Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms and Figures of Speech (Calgary,
Alberta: Broadview Press, 1997).
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Fenton, James, An Introduction to English Poetry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003).
Fry, Stephen, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (London: Hutchinson, 2005).
Hobsbaum, Philip, Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form (London: Routledge, 1996).
Jason, Philip K., ‘Modern Versions of the Villanelle’, College Literature, vol 7 no 2 (Spring 1980), 136-145.
MacFarland, Ronald, ‘The Contemporary Villanelle’, Modern Poetry Studies, vol 11 nos 1 & 2 (1982), 113-127.
Matterson, Stephen, & Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry (London: Hodder Arnold, 2000).
Steele, Timothy, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999).
Norton, 2000).
Option Modules
Preparatory reading lists for these option modules, along with brief module descriptions, were circulated
during the summer vacation period. Further details of these modules may be found at
www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/documentation.
Module
Tutor
Day/Time
Dr Paul Jenner
TUE 14:00-16:00
28 Jan, 11, 25 Feb, 11, To be advised
25 Mar
EN7133 Poetry
Nick Everett
Writing and
Contemporary Poetry
THU 14:00-16:00
30 Jan, 13, 27 Feb, 13, Att 1301
27 Mar
EN7134 Literature
and Gender: Deviant
Bodies and Dissident
Desires
Dr Emma Parker
MON 10:00-12:00
7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Att 211
Dec
EN7135 Writing
Fiction
Dr Harry Whitehead
THU 11:00-13:00
10, 24 Oct, 7, 21 Nov, Att 211
5, 12 Dec
EN7132 Literature
and Exile: American
Writers in Paris
Dates
Venue
Programme and Module Specifications
View the programme and module specifications for your course via
www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/documentation
In the programme specification you will find a summary of the aims of your course of study and its learning
outcomes, alongside details of its teaching and learning methods and means of assessment. The programme
specification also identifies the core modules that make up the course and any choice of optional modules.
Each module has its own specification that formally records that module’s aims, teaching and learning
methods, assessment components and their percentage weighting.
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Attendance Requirements
Attendance is an essential requirement for success in your studies. The University’s expectations about
attendance are defined in Senate Regulation 4: governing student obligations (see www.le.ac.uk/senateregulation4). Full-time students must reside in Leicester, or within easy commuting distance of the city, for
the duration of each semester. You should attend all lectures, seminars, practical sessions and other formal
classes specified in your course timetable, unless you have been officially advised that attendance at a
particular session is not compulsory or you have received formal approval for absence.
In addition to other attendance monitoring practices, departments will monitor international student
attendance at two ‘checkpoints’ during each academic year, typically at a compulsory learning and teaching
session appearing in course or examination timetables. Students will not normally be notified of checkpoint
dates in advance. If you are an international student and you fail to meet attendance and/or checkpoints
requirements this may result in the termination of your course and the subsequent reporting of this to the
UK Border Agency, in line with University sponsor obligations.
Tutors will keep a record of students' attendance at seminars; where modules are team-taught, module
convenors will monitor attendance across the semester.
Teaching Timetable
You will be notified of any timetable alterations by email/Blackboard; please check your University email
account frequently.
Coursework Submission
Please see the Referencing and Academic Honesty section for details of coursework submission.
You should make sure that you submit your assignments by their due date to avoid any marks being
deducted for lateness. Penalties for late submission of coursework follow the University scheme defined in
the Regulations governing the assessment of taught programmes (see www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulation7 or
www.le.ac.uk/sas/assessments/late-submission).
Dissertation Preparation
Critical Dissertation (EN7033) and Creative Dissertation (EN7034)
The Presentation
Proposals for the dissertation are presented at a special seminar in the summer term (see course timetable).
All full-time students present dissertation proposals at this seminar. First-year part-time students are
strongly encouraged to present proposals too, even if they are still very provisional, to assist them in
preparing for the dissertation they will be writing next academic year. Second-year part-time students may
also find it useful to participate though they will already have been allocated supervisors and have been
working on their dissertations for several months.
A week before the formal presentation session, students meet together without staff present (see course
timetable). This first meeting is informal but mandatory. The purpose of the session is to help students
assess together the scope and nature of each other’s chosen topic, as well as to begin planning the research
necessary to complete their dissertation. The second session is more formal, although not assessed. At this
meeting, students present their proposals to all members of the MA staff, who offer new perspectives on
specific projects as well as advice on more general issues.
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not be any longer than five minutes
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give a general outline of the topic and address two or three specific issues relating to it
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comment on the appeal and potential of the project
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include a list of key research questions
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indicate methodology and, where appropriate, relevant theoretical frameworks
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consider how the material in the dissertation might be best organised
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identify gaps in knowledge and outline areas that require development
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comment on any problems students envisage they may encounter
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be of a professional standard (including, for instance, the use of a handout and /or audio-visual
equipment, such as PowerPoint)
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demonstrate that students have developed good presentation skills.
Please notify the School’s postgraduate administrator of any audio-visual equipment you will require for the
pre-presentation meeting and for the main presentations meeting. If you require a laptop computer for a
PowerPoint presentation, please also let her know the drive you require (CD, floppy or USB port).
The Written Proposal
Students are required to submit a written proposal in typescript on the Dissertation Proposal form, available
electronically on Blackboard, to the School Office (Att 1514 or englishMA@le.ac.uk). The proposal must
include a proposed title, a brief outline of the subject and focus of the project (no more than 200 words), an
account of its aims and methods (no more than 400 words) and a short bibliography featuring key primary
and secondary sources. See below for deadlines.
The key questions a proposal should address are what, why and how? For a Critical Dissertation (EN7033),
the questions are:
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What is the topic? What questions will I be asking about this topic as I undertake research? (You
may, if you wish, include a list of research questions in your proposal.)
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Why am I writing it; that is, why is this topic interesting and significant? What is the rationale?
How will my work challenge or extend existing scholarship?
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How am I going to do it? Which texts will I use? How will it be structured?
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What is my methodology and/or theoretical framework?
For a Creative Dissertation (EN7034), the questions are:
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What genre(s) will I be adopting? What characters will feature? What themes am I going to
explore?
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Why am I writing in this genre and about these characters and themes?
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How do I propose to use the genre, characters and themes, to achieve what effects? How does
my work relate to works I have read or studied?
The deadlines for written proposals are:
for second-year part-time students, 12.00noon on Wednesday 5 February 2014,
and for full-time students, 12.00noon on Wednesday 28 May 2014.
Supervision
This is an independent project but at every stage, from conception through composition and revision to final
submission, staff are available to offer support and feedback. With the help of the supervisor’s advice and
guidance, students plan, develop, revise and improve their work through a series of drafts. They are
provided with up to five hours of one-to-one supervision and must meet with their supervisor on a formal
basis on at least three occasions during the process of writing the dissertation (between May and
September). (In exceptional cases, students may make alternative arrangements for supervision (e.g. via
email), but must then keep a record of all communications with their supervisor.) In addition, students are
expected to spend 445 hours on private study. Supervisors may read and offer feedback on all of the rough
draft but no more than one third of the final draft. The final date for the submission of drafts to supervisors
is 1 September (except by special arrangement). After supervisions, students are required to submit a short
summary of the meeting (of no more than one page of A4) to their supervisor as an aid to self-reflection and
a record of progress.
Second-year part-time students will be allocated supervisors by 19 February 2014, full-time students by 11
June 2014.
Change of Course/Module
Discuss your options with your personal tutor, or another appropriate member of staff in your department, if
you are considering a change of course or module. Changes of course or module require approval by your
department and the University’s Registry and will only be allowed in certain circumstances.
See www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/transfercourse or www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/transfermodule for details of the
procedures involved and deadlines that apply.
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Marking and Assessment Practices
Student anonymity will be preserved during the marking of all formal examinations. Summative coursework
(i.e. coursework that contributes to your module mark or grade) will be marked anonymously unless there
are sound educational reasons for not doing so, or the type of assessment makes marking impractical.
Feedback and the Return of Work from Staff
The Department complies with the University’s policy for the return of marked coursework (see
www.le.ac.uk/sas/quality/student-feedback/return-of-marked-work for details of the full policy).
General principles:
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Feedback and provisional grading on coursework will be returned within 21 days of the submission
date for campus-based programmes; 28 days for distance learning and approved programmes;
In exceptional circumstances where this is not possible, students will be notified in advance of the
expected return date and the reasons for the longer turn-round time and where possible staff will
provide some interim feedback: for example in the form of generic feedback to the class regarding
common errors and potential areas for improvement.
All work is marked by two markers. Please see the end of this Handbook for our Error! Reference source not
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Students will receive a written report and an agreed grade for each assessed essay and dissertation.
Other feedback will include verbal feedback from seminar tutors.
You are encouraged to discuss your assessment feedback with your personal tutor, if you have any questions
or concerns.
Progression and Classification of Awards
The University’s system for the classification of awards and the rules of progression are defined in the
Regulations governing taught postgraduate programmes of study (www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulation6).
Alternatively, refer to the Student and Academic Services website for information about degree classification
and progression: www.le.ac.uk/sas/assessments/pgt-progressionaward
Any specific progression requirements for your course are stated in its programme specification (see
http://www.le.ac.uk/sas/courses/documentation).
Should you fail to achieve a pass mark (50%) in a module, you will be entitled to re-sit or re-submit any of the
failed components of assessment associated with that module, on one occasion only. Please note, however,
that the number of credits of taught modules that you are entitled to re-sit or re-submit is half of the credit
value of the taught component of the programme (i.e. up to 60 taught credits if you are undertaking a 60credit dissertation). One resubmission of the dissertation will normally be allowed. For further details,
please refer to Senate Regulation 6: Regulations governing taught postgraduate programmes of study.
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Feedback from Students
Student Feedback Questionnaires
Students are asked to complete a course questionnaire at the conclusion of the taught section of their course
(at the end of the spring term or beginning of the summer term).
The School uses questionnaire feedback within the process of reviewing individual modules and the course as
a whole.
The Course Convenor will respond to feedback verbally (where appropriate) at the end-of-course meeting
and will communicate actions taken via Blackboard.
Student Staff Committees
The School Postgraduate Student-Staff Committee meets three times each year.
Representatives are drawn from each of the School’s MA programmes and also from the English Research
(PhD) programme. Volunteers are sought at the beginning of each academic year; the Students’ Union will
circulate details about Course Rep elections.
In 2013/14, the Postgraduate Staff-Student Committee will meet:
1.00pm, Wednesday 30 October 2013, in Att 1315
2.00pm, Thursday 6 March 2014, in Att 1315
2.00pm, Wednesday 7 May 2014, in Att 1315.
If you would like to raise an issue at a PGSSC meeting, please contact your course representative. (Details are
posted on a noticeboard in the 16th floor and are also listed on Blackboard.)
Minutes of each meeting are posted on the noticeboard and on Blackboard, and are also emailed to all
postgraduate students.
The University’s Code of Practice on the Work of Student-Staff Committees may be downloaded here:
www2.le.ac.uk/offices/sas2/quality/codes/documents/sscommittees.pdf.
Societies
SPELL is the social and academic society for postgraduates in the School of English. We exist to nurture a
lively postgraduate community within the department, acting as the social hub for both MA and PhD
students. The society aims to support postgraduate students throughout their studies, whether that’s simply
by offering a chance to make new friends and catch up with old ones, or through the development of
research skills and interests at a workshop or Postgraduate Forum. Throughout the year we coordinate
formal and informal events to bring postgraduates together, from casual socialising in the pub and/or
afternoon tea to academic workshops. Regular events include an annual welcome reception, the
Postgraduate Forum, Café Spell and a theatre trip, in addition to special events such as the Shakespeare
workshop, creative writing workshop and the summer picnic held over the past year. We also maintain links
with other societies across the College, such as the New History Lab.
The SPELL Committee is focused on reaching out to all postgraduates in the School of English and hope to run
activities that everyone can enjoy. Please get in touch with any member of the committee if you have any
suggestions/ ideas for the future. We look forward to meeting you in October.
The new membership year will begin at our welcome reception at the beginning of term.
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If you would like to join the Society, please see the SPELL web pages on the School of English site
(www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/studentresources/societiesandcommittees) or join our Facebook
Group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/208586385844425.
University Facilities
University Library
The Library is your gateway to high quality information relevant to your studies. Using it effectively
contributes directly to your success.
The Library provides you with:
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access to a huge range of specialist information resources including a print collection of over 1 million
items and a Digital Library of over 250,000 eBooks and 20,000 electronic journals which you can use
from anywhere on the Web;
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help in finding and using information; online, face to face and by telephone;
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individual and group study space, including the Graduate School Reading Room exclusively for
postgraduate students;
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PCs, netbooks and wireless networking for your laptop;
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services for distance learners and researchers.
The Library is a shared resource for all members of the University. Please respect it and observe the Library
regulations available at www.le.ac.uk/library/about.
To get started, visit www.le.ac.uk/library
Contact: David Wilson Library
+44 (0)116 252 2043 | library@le.ac.uk
IT Services
Whilst studying at the University you will have a University IT account and email address. There are hundreds
of University PCs available with Office 2010 and many specialist programs to help you with your studies.
Visit go.le.ac.uk/it4students for more information about:
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Student email: Access your email and calendar anywhere, including on your smartphone or other
mobile device;
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Printing: print, copy or scan on campus; pay by topping up your print and copy account;
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IT Help: visit the Help Zone in the Library, phone 0116 252 2253, email ithelp@le.ac.uk or attend a
training course;
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Wifi: free access to eduroam wifi on campus, in halls or at other universities;
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PCs on campus: there are over 900 PCs available, with 350 located in the David Wilson Library
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(including 24/7 access during exam periods) and how to find other Student PC Areas;
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Files: personal ‘Z: drive’ to store your files, which is backed up and available anywhere;
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Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment: support and information for all your courses;
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Leicester Digital Library: access to journals, databases and electronic books online;
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Mobile app: Download the University mobile app.
More information can be found at go.le.ac.uk/it4students
For a list of computer user areas, see:
www2.le.ac.uk/offices/itservices/resources/cs/2ls/pcareas/pdfs/PCAreaList.pdf.
Available IT Services training includes:
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Word 2010 – Long Document Essentials: learn about useful, time-saving features.
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PowerPoint 2010 for Academic Posters: create and format an A1 or A0 poster in PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint 2010 for Presentations: learn to use PowerPoint to create visual aids for presentations.
University Bookshop
The Bookshop is owned by the University and is located on the ground floor of the David Wilson Library.
All prescribed and recommended texts are stocked, so that students can rely on the Bookshop for the books
that they need in the course of their studies. We also sell a wide range of paperbacks and books of general
interest. Books not in stock can be quickly provided to order.
Greetings cards, a wide range of stationery items and University of Leicester branded merchandise and
clothing are always available.
The opening hours are:
Monday to Friday
9.00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. (5.00 p.m. in vacations)
Saturday
10.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Contact: University Bookshop, David Wilson Library
+44 (0)116 229 7440 | bookshop@le.ac.uk
Other Important University Services
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English Language Training Unit (ELTU) www2.le.ac.uk/offices/eltu
Languages at Leicester www2.le.ac.uk/departments/modern-languages/lal
Victoria Park Health Centre www.victoriaparkhealthcentre.co.uk
University Chaplaincy and Prayer rooms for students www2.le.ac.uk/institution/chaplaincy
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University Regulations
Senate Regulations (www.le.ac.uk/sas/regulations) contain rules and other important information about
being a student at the University of Leicester. The Regulations are part of the formal contract between you
and the University; you will have confirmed when completing registration that you will comply with
procedures defined in the University’s Regulations.
The Quick Guide to Student Responsibilities (www.le.ac.uk/sas/regulations/responsibilities) summarises
some of your most important responsibilities as a student at Leicester, as defined in detail in the Regulations.
These responsibilities relate to:
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attendance;
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submission of work by set deadlines;
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term time employment (full-time students – Home/EU and International);
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illness or other circumstances impacting upon studies;
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maintaining your personal details;
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the additional responsibilities of international students.
Failure to adhere to student responsibilities can have serious consequences and may lead to the termination
of your studies.
Student Responsibilities
The University expects its students to behave responsibly and with consideration to others at all times. The
University’s expectations about student behaviour are described in:
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the Student Charter;
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the Regulations governing Student Discipline;
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the Student Code of Social Responsibility;
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the Code of Practice governing Freedom of Speech;
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the University’s regulatory statement concerning Harassment and Discrimination;
These can be found at www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulations
Neglect of Academic Obligations
You are expected to attend all learning and teaching events which are timetabled for you. These include
lectures, tutorials or practical classes. You are also expected to submit work within the deadlines notified to
you. Persistent failure to attend taught sessions or to submit work, without good cause, will be considered to
be a neglect of academic obligations. Departmental procedures for dealing with neglect are set out within
the University’s disciplinary regulations (see www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulation11, paragraphs 11.52 – 11.61).
In the most serious of cases of neglect the University has the right to terminate a student’s course.
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Referencing and Academic Honesty
Your coursework must meet each of the following conditions:
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You should agree your essay question with the module tutor before commencing to write.
The School of English recommends the MHRA referencing system (www.style.mhra.org.uk), but if you
are familiar with an alternative system, such as MLA or Harvard, you may use this instead. Please
consult an appropriate style guide to ensure you are using your chosen system correctly.
Your essay should be within the stated word limit. Word limits include footnotes and appendices but
exclude bibliographies.
Your essay must be word-processed (or typed). If, exceptionally, you have been given permission to
submit it in hand-written form, you MUST write legibly.
Make sure that you put your student number and module title in the header of your essay, as well as
on the cover sheet. Do not put your name on either.
Your essay should be on one side of the paper only and in double-line spacing. There must be a wide
margin on the left-hand side of the page.
The pages must be numbered.
Two copies of assessed work should be submitted in hard copy with a cover sheet completed and
fixed to the front of each. Note that there are different cover sheets for essays, creative writing and
reflective commentaries for creative writing modules. Ensure that you attach the correct cover sheet
to your work. Cover sheets are available on Blackboard and in a box on top of the postgraduate
pigeonholes on Attenborough floor 16.
Firmly fasten the pages of each copy together. Please do not submit your work in folders.
It is ESSENTIAL for you to keep a copy of your work.
All submitted course work should be placed in the School’s postgraduate postbox on Attenborough
floor 16 landing, except for dissertations which should be handed in to the School office
(Attenborough 1514).
You may submit coursework essays by post, as long as these are sent by Recorded Delivery and arrive
in the School Office by the stated deadline; you should allow 24 hours for mail to be forwarded by
the University’s central post room to the School.
If your piece of work does not meet all the School’s requirements, it will not be accepted as
examinable material.
Work submitted for assessment which does not meet the requirements of the examiners in respect
of presentation (including grammar, spelling and punctuation) will be referred back for amendment.
Candidates who have not passed their coursework will not be permitted to proceed to the
dissertation, or, in the case of part-time students, will not be permitted to enter the second year of
the course.
Essays and exercises are double marked. Work is usually marked within 21 days of submission. Work which
is submitted late, for any reason, falls outside of this schedule.
In addition, for dissertations:
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Supervisors may read all of the rough draft, commenting on issues of argument, sources, structure,
presentation and grammar, but may read no more than one third of the final draft.
Dissertations should not be more than 15,000 words in length* (25,000 words for the MAES 90-credit
version) including notes, but excluding the bibliography. This limit may only be exceeded by prior
permission of the supervisor.
Put your student number, not your name, on the dissertation.
Front cover (cardboard) of dissertation should bear same details as title page, i.e.
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DISSERTATION TITLE
University of Leicester
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CANDIDATE NUMBER (NOT NAME)
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Students are required to submit three copies of their dissertation, word-processed and soft bound
(also called 'perfect bound'), by 15 September** of the year in which they submit their proposal, with
a completed Postgraduate Assessment Feedback: Written Work cover sheet placed in (but not bound
into) each copy.
We recommend that dissertations be bound by the University’s Print Services (situated in the Fielding
Johnson Building, website www2.le.ac.uk/offices/printservices), who require three days for binding,
or ten days for copying and binding. Enquiries to 0116 252 2851 or printservices@le.ac.uk. You are
free to select your own choice of colour for the cover.
Dissertations should be handed in at the School Office (Att.1514) and also submitted electronically on
Turnitin.
It is not possible for dissertations submitted after 15 September** to be considered by the next
Board of Examiners. Thus, failure to submit by the deadline means the award of the degree, and the
opportunity to graduate, will be delayed.
* Dissertation word lengths are subject to confirmation by the University.
** Or by the following Tuesday, where 15 September falls on a weekend or a Monday.
You must always be sure that you credit ideas, data, information, quotations and illustrations to their original
author. Not to do so is plagiarism: the repetition or paraphrasing of someone else’s work without proper
acknowledgement.
The University expects students to conduct their studies with exemplary standards of academic honesty and
will penalise students who submit work, or parts of work, that have been:
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plagiarised;
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completed with others for individual assessment (collusion);
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previously submitted for assessment, including self-plagiarism;
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prepared by others;
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supplied to another for copying.
Plagiarism and collusion
Plagiarism is used as a general term to describe taking and using another’s thoughts and writings as one’s
own. Examples of forms of plagiarism include:
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the verbatim (word for word) copying of another’s work without appropriate and correctly presented
acknowledgement;
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the close paraphrasing of another’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the order of
presentation, without appropriate and correctly presented acknowledgement;
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unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another’s work;
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the deliberate and detailed presentation of another’s concept as one’s own;
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reproduction of a student’s own work when it has been previously submitted and marked but is
presented as original material (self-plagiarism).
Any student who prepares or produces work with others and then submits it for assessment as if it were the
product of his/her individual efforts (collusion) will be penalised. Unless specifically instructed otherwise, all
work you submit for assessment should be your own and should not have been previously submitted for
assessment either at Leicester or elsewhere.
See also www.le.ac.uk/sas/assessments/plagiarism
Penalties
The University regards plagiarism and collusion as very serious offences and so they are subject to strict
penalties. The penalties that departments are authorised to apply are defined in the Regulations governing
student discipline (see www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulation11, paragraphs 11.62 to 11.77).
Avoiding Plagiarism and Poor Academic Practice
Check the Learning Development website for guidance on how to avoid plagiarism
www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
If you are in any doubt about what constitutes good practice, ask your personal/academic tutors for advice or
make an appointment with Learning Development for individual advice. You can book an appointment online
by visiting: www.le.ac.uk/succeedinyourstudies
Turnitin plagiarism software is used in the School of English. In addition to two paper copies, you are also
required to submit each essay electronically via the Turnitin plagiarism-detection database on Blackboard:
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Click on to your course title
Click on 'Assignments'
Click on 'View/Complete' for the relevant assignment
Fill in your name and the title of the essay
Click on 'Browse' and select the essay as you would an attachment to an email (the software accepts
the following file types: Word, Text, Postscript, PDF, HTML, and RTF)
Click 'Open' (this will return you to the Turnitin page)
Click 'Submit'
You will be sent an email to confirm that you have submitted your essay successfully. You will not be able to
see the originality report.
If you have any concerns about plagiarism you should talk to your supervisor, seminar tutor or personal tutor
about it.
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Notification of Ill Health and other Mitigating Circumstances
The University recognises that students may suffer from a sudden illness or other serious and unforeseen
event or set of circumstances which adversely affect their ability to complete an assessment or the results
they obtain for an assessment. In such cases the mitigating circumstances regulations and procedures may be
applied. These regulations are designed to ensure the fair and consistent treatment of all students.
If your studies are affected in any way by illness or any other mitigating circumstance you must tell your
department at the time that it occurs. You are also required to supply supporting evidence (e.g. a medical
certificate) to your department by the relevant deadline. The deadline will be normally not later than seven
days after the assessment deadline to which it relates.
See www.le.ac.uk/sas/regulations/mitigation for full details of the mitigating circumstances regulations and
procedures, including the University’s definition of a mitigating circumstance.
Personal Support for Students
School Student Support Arrangements
From discussion of academic progress, to friendly advice on personal matters; personal tutors are there to
provide support, advice and guidance on an individual level. Common topics for discussion may include
course changes, study progress, module choices, exam results, career opportunities or more personal
problems such as accommodation or financial difficulties. The Department’s personal tutor system operates
in accordance with the Code of Practice on Personal Support for Students:
www.le.ac.uk/sas/quality/personaltutor
Your personal tutor will offer confidential advice and support on a range of matters, from official dealings
with the University, College or School (this includes advice on issues relating to modules on which your
personal tutor also teaches; as personal tutor their role is to provide you with support, not discipline) to
guidance on how to proceed in the event of a failure. It is in your interests to ensure that your personal tutor
is kept informed about anything that might affect your ability to fulfil your assignment and attendance
obligations. Your personal tutor will be able to put you in touch with a range of specialist advisers within the
university, qualified to give financial, medical and welfare advice.
The writing of references for potential employers is generally done by your personal tutor. Please do
remember to ask your personal tutor, though, before giving his or her name as a referee. It would also help
your tutor if you could provide an up-to-date curriculum vitae, and specific details about the position applied
for.
Equal Opportunities
The School’s Equal Opportunities Officer is tbc.
The School AcessAbility officer is Mr Simon Poole.
If you have any concerns related to equal opportunities (ethnicity, gender, disability, etc.), these may be
raised at a regular Postgraduate Student-Staff Committee meeting.
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University Student Support arrangements
AccessAbility Centre
The Centre offers a range of services to all students who have specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia,
disabilities or long-term conditions. Staff offer one to one support, assessment of dyslexia, the co-ordination
of alternative examination arrangements and assistance with applications for the Disabled Students'
Allowance. The open access Centre acts as a resource base for students and staff and is a relaxed place for
students to work. Its computers are equipped with specialised software for screen enlargement; essay
planning and speech output software is on the University network. The Centre has some specialised
equipment (CCTV, enlarged keyboard, and chairs) and some for loan (chairs, laptops and digital recorders).
Low-level photocopying and printing facilities are also available. The Centre welcomes self-referrals as well
as referrals from academic staff.
Contact: AccessAbility Centre, David Wilson Library
Tel/minicom: +44 (0)116 252 5002 | Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5513 | accessable@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/accessability
Student Welfare Centre
The Student Welfare Centre offers wide ranging practical support, advice, and information for students.
Financial advice is offered, with information on budgeting and funding. Specialised staff can advocate over
late loans and other financial issues. Students can apply for hardship grants and loans through the Service;
and obtain assistance with applications to charities and trusts.
For international students, the Student Welfare Service organises various Welcome programmes throughout
the year, the main five-day event taking place in September annually. Expert immigration advice is available;
students are strongly advised to renew their visas through the scheme provided by Student Welfare. Student
Welfare also co-ordinates HOST weekend visits to British families and other hospitality visits to local families
in Leicester. Specialised Officers also support students who experience financial or personal problems.
A specialist officer can provide information over housing contracts and can assist students over disputes with
neighbours/housemates.
A legal advice clinic is held in conjunction with the School of Law.
Contact: Student Welfare Service, Percy Gee Building (First Floor).
Tel: +44 (0)116 223 1185 | Fax: 0116 223 1196 | welfare@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/welfare
Student Psychological and Healthy Living Service
This Service offers a range of expertise and support for both the physical and psychological aspects of health
and wellbeing in the context of your academic journey.
Services on offer include:
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Student Counselling Support
Time-limited, free and confidential counselling on a one-to-one or group basis, as appropriate, addressing
both academic-related and personal issues.
For information see our website: www.le.ac.uk/counselling
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Contact: Student Counselling Service
+44 (0)116 2231780 | counselling@le.ac.uk
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Student Mental Wellbeing support
Practical and emotional one-to-one and group support to students managing mental health issues at the
University.
Contact: Student Support (mental wellbeing)
+44 (0)116 252 2283 | mentalwellbeing@le.ac.uk
www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/student-support-mental-wellbeing
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Student Healthy Living Service
The Student Healthy Living Service strives to help students enjoy a balanced life; the service helps individuals
to identify an approach to life which can improve their wellbeing, enhance study and reach their full
potential. The service is committed to the delivery of health and wellbeing activities that support students in
developing life skills. As well as supporting academic achievement, these skills are transferable and should
prove beneficial through the transition from University to the demands of employment and graduate careers.
The Student Healthy Living Service works closely with the Victoria Park Health Centre and also provides
direction to appropriate health care services. More information can be found on the Healthy Living Service
website.
Contact: Student Healthy Living Service
+(0)116 223 1268 | healthyliving@le.ac.uk
go.le.ac.uk/healthyliving
These services are located at: 161 Welford Road, Leicester LE2 6BF
Students’ Union Education Unit (ED)
Education help and advice is provided by the Students’ Union for all students.
If you would find it helpful to talk to someone outside of your department, we offer a confidential and
impartial service to help and advise you about where to go and what to do. If you wish to come and talk to us
about your personal circumstances or academic worries, for example, exams or putting together an academic
appeal, we will provide a professional and friendly service.
You will find the Education Help and Advice staff in the Students’ Union Building on the first floor within the
West Wing. Opening hours are 10.00 am to 4.00 pm and you can either pop in or book an appointment by
contacting us on the details below:
Contact: Students’ Union Education Unit (ED), Students’ Union (First Floor)
+44 (0)116 223 1132/1228 | educationsu@le.ac.uk
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Learning Development
Studying for a degree is a stimulating, challenging and rewarding experience. In order to make the most of
this experience, the University of Leicester provides a wide range of resources and services to support and
enhance your academic development in areas such as essay-writing, critical thinking, independent learning
and time-management. The Learning Development Team is here to help you develop the skills and abilities
you need in order to succeed in your studies. To find out more about how we can help you develop your
academic skills and abilities, visit our website: www.le.ac.uk/succeedinyourstudies.
Careers and Employability
The School organises occasional events in collaboration with Martin Coffey of the Careers Service. Details are
circulated via email and via the postgraduate noticeboards as appropriate.
The School’s Senior Tutor for Careers and Employability is Dr Richa Dwor.
Career Development Service
You need a first-class education; that’s a given. But you also need an edge, an advantage, a head-start in the
competitive graduate recruitment world. With your drive and determination, the Career Development
Service can help you gain the extra dimension you need to stand out – real-world skills and qualities that will
not only enhance your early career prospects, but will stay with you for life.
The way to make the most of you is to work with us the moment you arrive at Leicester. If you’re willing to
take responsibility for your own journey at the outset, we’ve got the knowledge and resources to spur you on
to success.
Careers at Leicester isn’t just about getting you some work experience, we look at the bigger picture. We’ll
encourage you to be reflective and think about what you want out of a career – what is it that really
motivates and inspires you? We’ll also get you thinking about what skills and experience you possess or need
to help you achieve your goals.
You can then explore your options and begin looking at what you need to do to fulfil those big ambitions.
Starting early is key, when you arrive at Leicester you will already be registered on MyCareers, which is the
gateway to all the opportunities on offer, from volunteering, enterprise and business start-up, to elected
officers, and student group leadership there are so many different ways to gain experience, many of which
are accredited by the Leicester Award, our flagship employability award, designed to help you develop,
assess, recognise and record the employability skills you are developing.
We want you to follow your passion. So whether you want to make a difference in the voluntary sector, reach
the top in high-flying business or be the next big thing in media, there are specially designed programmes and
activities here at Leicester that can support you in getting the skills, experiences and exposure you need.
Contact: Career Development Service, The Hub, Percy Gee Building (Students' Union)
+(0)116 252 2004 | careershelp@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/careers
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Personal Development Planning
Personal Development Planning (PDP) is designed to enable you to think about, and plan for, your own
personal, academic and career development. Throughout your degree you will be encouraged to reflect on
your progress and achievements, and to identify areas you wish to develop and improve on. PDP will help you
to:
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think about how you can improve your employability and career prospects
To find out more about how the Department supports PDP, chat with your personal tutor. In addition,
Learning Development provides some more general information about what PDP is, and how you can engage
with it: www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/personal-development-planning-pdp.
PDP is a structured and academically supported process intended to help students reflect on their academic,
personal and career development. During your course of study you will be given the opportunity to reflect on
your progress over the year, to identify your own strengths and areas of development, and to plan for your
future success.
The three key elements of Personal Development Planning (PDP) are:
Academic Development -- how can I improve my academic performance?
Personal Growth -- what can I do to get the most from my time at University?
Employability and Career Planning -- where do I want to be when I complete my course, and what can I
do to get help from there?
At Leicester, PDP is closely linked with the Personal Tutor programme. All MA students will be asked to
complete a progress review form, which is then used as a basis for discussion in meetings with their personal
tutors each semester. It is hoped that by introducing postgraduate students to PDP at the outset of their
degrees, they will come to consider this act of self-assessment as an integral part of their studies and their
reflections on the progress they are making at university. English School staff will assist students in their selfassessment of their own academic, personal and career development, and in the formulation of researchand employability-related strategies based on this process of self-appraisal. You should make an
appointment to see your personal tutor at least once a semester. He or she will be happy to discuss your
progress on the course and to direct you towards appropriate resources and support. Postgraduate PDP
forms, samples of which are included in the appendices to this Handbook, have been designed as an aid to
reflection and may be used to provide a focus for discussion with your personal tutor. While PDP is optional,
students are expected to have a formal meeting with their Personal Tutor at least once a semester.
Further
details
about
the
PDP
programme
at
Leicester
are
available
at
www2.le.ac.uk/offices/careers/ld/resources/pdp, or, if you would like to discuss PDP further, please contact
the Course Convenor.
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Safety and Security
The School Safety Officer is Mrs Carol Arlett.
Emergency Numbers
To summon the fire brigade, police, or ambulance from an internal phone:
dial 888
If there is no reply:
dial 9 then 999
From an external phone / payphone:
dial 999
The fire alarm is tested once a week, usually on Thursday at 9.45am. If the alarm sounds at another time, exit
the building via the stairs. Do not collect personal belongings. Follow any instructions issued by the fire
wardens. The assembly point is the area in front of the Mathematics Building.
Paternoster
In order to prevent the Paternoster from malfunctioning, students are asked to observe strictly the safety
instructions posted in each car.
Personal Belongings
Your personal belongings are not covered by the University’s insurance. You are therefore advised to check
whether your parents’ or family policies provide adequate protection. If not, private insurance arrangements
should be made.
A lost property service operates from the Security Lodge, which is situated at the far end of the Fielding
Johnson Building on Wyggeston Drive, University entrance No. 1.
Bicycles may be brought onto the main campus but must be placed in the cycle racks provided, and
appropriate security measures taken to help to prevent theft and damage. For advice on preventing cycle
theft and details of the University’s Coded Cycle Scheme visit:
www.le.ac.uk/estates/facilities_&_services/security/CodedCycleScheme.html
Complaints and Academic Appeals Procedures
The University has robust systems in place governing the quality and standards of its degree programmes and
your experience as a student here. We are confident that, like the vast majority of students here, you will
enjoy and be satisfied with your course. In most instances your department will be able to resolve any issues
that do occur but we recognise that this will not always be possible. For this reason, the University has official
procedures that allow eligible cases to be formally reviewed.
Information about these procedures, including the relevant forms, can be found on the Student and
Academic Services website: see www.le.ac.uk/sas/regulations/appeals-complaints. These pages should be
read in conjunction with the University’s Regulations governing student appeals (www.le.ac.uk/senateregulation10) and Regulations governing student complaints (www.le.ac.uk/senate-regulation12).
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Tutors
NICK EVERETT BA (Oxford)
Room 1301, Attenborough Tower, 252 2644, ngre1@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/nicholaseverett
ALBERTO FERNANDEZ CARBAJAL
afc9@le.ac.uk
CORINNE FOWLER BA MA (Leeds) PhD (Stirling)
Room 1513, Attenborough Tower, 252 1435, csf11@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/corinnefowler
SARAH GRAHAM BA MPhil (Stirling) PhD (Leeds)
Room 1304, Attenborough Tower, 252 2625, shsg1@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/sarahgraham
PAUL JENNER
pj57@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/dr-paul-jenner
CATHERINE MORLEY BA MA (Cork) PhD (Oxford Brookes)
Room 1305, Attenborough Tower, 252 2522, catherinemorley@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/catherinemorley
EMMA PARKER BA PhD (Birmingham)
Room 1405, Attenborough Tower, 252 2630, ep27@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/emmaparker
MARTIN STANNARD BA (Warwick) MA (Sussex) DPhil (Oxford) FRSL FEA
Room 1309, Attenborough Tower, 252 2621, maj@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/martinstannard
VICTORIA STEWART BA (Sheffield) MA PhD (Leeds)
Room 1314, Attenborough Tower, 252 2634, vas6@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/victoriastewart
HARRY WHITEHEAD BA (Sussex), MSc MA (London) PhD (Lancaster)
Room 1604, Attenborough Tower, 252 3357, hdw5@le.ac.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/harrywhitehead
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Marking Criteria
EN7001 Bibliography Presentation
Fail
Pass
Merit
Use of academic
referencing
conventions
Minor errors in the
majority of
entries/
major systematic
errors
Minor errors in the Minor errors in a
minority of
small minority of
entries/minor
entries
systematic errors
Virtually faultless
Range of sources
Limited
Satisfactory
Very wide
Relevance and
appropriateness
of sources
The minority of
The majority of
A very large
items relevant and items relevant and majority of items
appropriate
appropriate
relevant and
appropriate
All items very
relevant and
appropriate
Rationale and
procedures for
selection
Unsatisfactory
rationale and
procedures
Satisfactory
rationale and
procedures
Very good
rationale,
thorough
procedures
Sophisticated and
clear rationale,
very thorough
procedures
Clarity of
presentation
Lacking in
coherence
Satisfactory
Coherent
Lucid
Evidence of
breadth
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Distinction
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EN7001 Written Exercise
Mark
Criteria
Distinction:
70+
Comprehensive synthesis of relevant materials, i.e. a monograph, a journal article, a
chapter from an essay collection, an electronic resource
Sophisticated analysis of concepts and arguments
Marked independence of thinking
Excellent organization and illustration of materials
Excellent range of reference to the appropriate materials
Clear academic writing in a discriminating register
Near-faultless presentation in accordance with the appropriate academic
conventions.
Thorough coverage of relevant materials
A very good standard of analysis of concepts and arguments
Substantial evidence of independent thinking
Very clear and effective organization and illustration of materials
Wide range of reference to the appropriate materials
Clear academic writing in an appropriate register
Very good presentation in accordance with appropriate academic conventions with
evidence of careful proofreading and correction.
Fair coverage of relevant materials, but with some gaps
Evidence of critical analysis of concepts and arguments
Some evidence of independent thinking
Sound organization and illustration of materials
A fair range of reference to the appropriate materials, but with some significant
omissions
Writing in an academic register with satisfactory levels of precision and clarity
Good presentation in accordance with appropriate academic conventions, but
evidence of insufficiently thorough proof-reading and of some shortcomings in
referencing, bibliography, citation and matters of style.
Merit:
60–69
Pass:
50–59
Fail:
below 50
Significant oversights in the coverage of relevant materials
Little critical analysis of concepts and arguments
Little evidence of independent thinking
Weakly conceived, with a lack of clarity and purpose in the organization and
illustration of the materials
Writing in an inappropriate register, with lack of clarity and precision
Inaccurate presentation, evidence of weak or inconsistent use of academic
conventions, poor proof-reading and serious problems with referencing,
bibliography, citation, formatting or style.
N.B. Work of whatever level with this kind of inaccurate presentation will be
referred for correction.
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Coursework and Critical Dissertations
Mark
Criteria
Distinction:
70+
Comprehensive coverage of relevant issues
Independent and effective research
Sophisticated analysis of texts and concepts
Marked independence of thinking
Excellent organization and illustration of arguments
Excellent range of reference to the appropriate primary and secondary sources
Clear and lucid academic writing in a discriminating register
Near-faultless presentation in accordance with the appropriate academic
conventions.
Thorough coverage of relevant issues
Substantial evidence of effective research
A very good standard of analysis of texts and concepts
Substantial evidence of independent thinking
Very clear and effective organization and illustration of arguments
Wide range of reference to the appropriate primary and secondary sources
Clear academic writing in an appropriate register
Very good presentation in accordance with appropriate academic conventions with
evidence of careful proofreading and correction.
Fair coverage of relevant issues, but with some gaps
Evidence of research
Evidence of critical analysis of texts and concepts
Some evidence of independent thinking
Sound organization and illustration of arguments
A fair range of reference to the appropriate primary and secondary sources, but
with some significant omissions
Writing in an academic register with satisfactory levels of precision and clarity
Good presentation in accordance with appropriate academic conventions, but
evidence of insufficiently thorough proof-reading and of some shortcomings in
referencing, bibliography, citation and matters of style.
Merit:
60–69
Pass:
50–59
Fail:
below 50
Significant oversights in the coverage of relevant issues
Very little evidence of research
Little critical analysis of texts and concepts
Little evidence of independent thinking
Weakly conceived, with a lack of clarity and purpose in the organization and
illustration of the argument
A limited range of reference to primary and secondary sources
Writing in an inappropriate register, with lack of clarity and precision
Inaccurate presentation, evidence of weak or inconsistent use of academic
conventions, poor proof-reading and serious problems with referencing,
bibliography, citation, formatting or style.
N.B. Work of whatever level with this kind of inaccurate presentation will be
referred for correction.
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Creative Writing
Language
Fail
Pass
Merit
Distinction
Poor control and
incompetent
handling of
language
Sound control and
for the most part
assured handling of
language
Overall control and
very assured
handling of
language
Full control and
excellent, precise
and original
handling of
language
Observation Poor use and
For the most part
Very good use and Excellent use and
control of observed assured use and
control of observed control of observed
detail
control of observed detail
detail
detail
Voice
Limited control of
narrative/lyric voice
or dialogue; poor
handling of tone
and register
Sound control of
and dialogue; for
the most part
assured handling of
tone and register
Overall control of
and dialogue; very
assured handling of
tone and register
Full control of
and dialogue;
excellent handling
of tone and register
Genre
Poor, incompetent
handling of generic
conventions
Sound, for the most
part assured
handling of generic
conventions
Very good, and in
places original,
handling of generic
conventions
Excellent and
original handling of
generic conventions
Structure
Limited control of
structure; poor,
incoherent
organisation
Good control of
structure;
competent, mainly
coherent
organisation
Overall control of
structure; very
good, coherent
organisation
Full control of
structure; excellent,
imaginative
organisation
Good presentation
with not many
errors; formatting
for the most part
correct
Very good
presentation with
very few errors;
formatting correct
Excellent,
impeccable
presentation;
formatting of
professional,
publishable
standard
Presentation Poor presentation
with many and/or
major errors;
formatting incorrect
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Reflective Commentaries on Creative Writing
Fail
Pass
Merit
Distinction
Explanation of
original aims
and process of
revision
Poor: process
inadequately
explained; lacks
clarity and
cogency;
identifies few
issues and little
evidence of
appropriate
response
Good: process
competently, if not
fully, explained;
some clarity and
cogency;
competently
identifies and
responds to some
issues
Very good: process
mostly explained;
mainly lucid and
cogent; perceptive
in identifying and
responding to issues
Excellent: process
fully explained;
thoroughly lucid
and cogent; very
perceptive in
identifying and
responding to issues
Engagement
with
significant
features (e.g.
language,
observation,
voice, genre,
structure,
presentation)
Poor: insufficient
evidence of
engagement with
or understanding
of significant
features
Good: some
cogency and
perceptiveness in
engagement with,
and understanding
of, some significant
features
Very good: mainly
cogent and
perceptive
engagement with,
and understanding
of, most significant
features
Excellent: very
cogent and
perceptive
engagement with,
and understanding
of, all significant
features
Situating work
in literary
(and, where
appropriate,
critical)
context
Poor:
Insubstantial and
unconvincing in
relating work to
existing literature
or criticism
Good: some
cogency and
perceptiveness in
relating work to
some existing
literature (and,
where appropriate,
criticism)
Very good: mainly
convincing and
perceptive in
relating work to fair
range of existing
literature (and,
where appropriate,
criticism)
Excellent: Wholly
convincing and very
perceptive in
relating work to a
good range of
existing literature
(and, where
appropriate,
criticism)
Response to
feedback from
supervisor
(and, where
relevant,
others)
Poor: Insufficient
evidence of
genuine creative
or intellectual
response to
feedback
Good: Evidence of
adequate, if limited,
creative and/or
intellectual
response to
feedback
Very good: Evidence
of intelligent and
productive creative
and/or intellectual
response to
feedback
Excellent: Evidence
of very intelligent
and productive
creative and
intellectual
response to
feedback
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