PURPOSES LITERATURE REVIEW METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS FINDINGS CONCLUSIONS

This is the report module for the MA Effective Learning. Please register for the summer term if you wish to submit and complete for September 2020.

Aims:

To give students experience of undertaking and completing a large piece of work, applying techniques learned throughout the programme, including the...

Aims:

To give students the experience of undertaking and completing a substantial piece of individual project work, applying knowledge learned from Terms 1...

Ancient Greek|Ancient Languages and Cultures|Classics|Comparative Literary Studies|English Literature|Latin

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This survey module builds on the first-year modules Interpreting Latin Literature and...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This survey module builds on the first-year modules Interpreting Latin Literature and Interpreting Greek Literature and is designed to provide a general critical background to the author and theme-based literature modules taught both in the original language and in translation. The module will analyse ways in which a range of modern critical techniques (including reception theory, feminist criticism, structuralism, post-colonialism) can enhance our reading of Greek and Latin texts. Emphasis will placed be on the relationship between these different approaches and a specific selection of texts across a range of Greek and Roman authors, periods and genres.

Skills: At the end of the module students should:
1. have engaged with questions of literary interpretation relevant to reading classical texts;
2. have a good understanding of how literary theory has evolved historically alongside developments in classical scholarship;
3. have a sound knowledge of the relevant primary and secondary bibliography;
4. be able to deploy appropriate evidence and test arguments in oral discussion and written analysis
5. be able to deploy evidence and argument effectively in written presentation.

Preliminary reading: Bennett, A., & Royle, N. Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. 5th edition.