Sophister Options, 2012-2013
- Options Timetable, 2011-2012 (XLS) (Options Timetable, 2012-2013 is forthcoming)
- Option Instructions (PDF)
- Additional Options (PDF)
Option Forms
List A
- Shakespeare and the Popularisation of History (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Irish Literary Autobiographical Writing (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Ulysses in Contexts (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Modern Horror Fiction (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- American Hardboiled and Noir Fiction 1920s-1950s (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Hobgoblin Romances and Shilling Shockers: The Rise of the Literary Gothic, 1750-1830 (PDF) (MT)
- The Locations of Irish Writing, 1690-1830 (PDF) (MT)
- Community and Contemporary Irish Fiction (PDF) (HT)
- Irish Children’s Literature (PDF) (HT)
- The Poetry of Loss, 1667-1800 (PDF) (HT)
- T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden (PDF) (MT)
- The War of Ideas - Politics, Plebeians, and Paranoia in the 1790s (PDF) (HT)
List B
- Poetry of the United States (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Yeats and the Making of Modern Irish Poetry (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Dickens (PDF) (MT)
- Older People in Children’s Literature (PDF) (MT)
- Theatre in Context: the Dublin Stage, 1900-1961 (PDF) (MT)
- Northern Irish Writing, 1935-1995 (MT)
- Early Modern Women Writers (PDF)(HT)
- Contemporary Irish Drama (PDF) (HT)
- Children’s Voices in Early Modern Texts (PDF) (HT)
- The Revolutionary Muse: Form and Theme in Romantic Poetry and Poetics (PDF) (HT)
List C
- Chaucer (YEAR-LONG)
- Contemporary British and Irish Fiction (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- The Poetry of War: Irish and British Poetry, 1914-1945 (PDF) (MT)
- Beckett’s Diminishing Prose of the World (PDF) (MT)
- Hawthorne and Melville (PDF) (MT)
- Art Writing (PDF) (HT)
- The Marriage Plot (PDF) (HT)
- John Donne: Life and Poetry (PDF) (HT)
- ‘An Invisible Literature’: Twentieth Century Science Fiction (PDF) (HT)
- Staging the Eighteenth Century (PDF) (Year Long)
- Death and Life in American Letters (HT)
List D
- Literary childhoods: from Locke to Lewis Carroll (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Creative Writing (PDF) (YEAR-LONG) * SS only
- Religion and its Literary Monsters (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Postmodern Fiction: Maps, Labyrinths and Webs (PDF) (MT)
- Digital Humanities Now (PDF) (MT)
- Postwar British Fiction (PDF) (HT)
- Home on the Stage (PDF) (HT)
- Big House Literature (PDF) (HT)
- ‘The Pain of Unbelonging’: Writing from Canada, South America and New Zealand (PDF) (HT)
- Modernist Women’s Fiction (PDF) (HT)
Open List
- Beowulf (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Global Shakespeare (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Reading the Renaissance Bible (PDF) (YEAR-LONG)
- Arthurian Literature (MT)
- 19th Century Irish Writing (PDF) (MT)
- The Gawain-Poet (PDF) (HT)
- Milton and the Revolutionary Imagination (PDF) (HT)
The following two modules, offered by the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, are being made available to English students who will read the texts in translation. You may only choose one of these modules, and if you do so you will be assessed according to the rules laid out in the module descriptions, which are somewhat different from those for our own English modules. - Dostoevsky (PDF) (HT)
- Tolstoy (PDF) (MT)
Dissertation Option
- Dissertation Option (YEAR-LONG) *SS only and is limited to 30 places.
Compulsory Course
- The Book *JSSH and JSTSM only.