Sophister Options for Visiting Students, 2013-2014
List A
Monday 11-1
- Year-Long
African and Caribbean Literature
American Essays
Modern Horror Fiction
Ulysses in Contexts
Yeats and Making of Modern Irish Poetry
- Michaelmas Term only
Irish Children’s Literature
Hobgoblin Romances and Shilling Shockers
Eliot and Auden
- Hilary Term only
Irish Writing, 1690-1815
Community and Contemporary Irish Fiction
The War of Ideas: Politics, Plebeians, and Paranoia in the 1790s
Big House Literature
List B
Wednesday 3-4; Friday 11-12
- Michaelmas Term only
Dickens
Theatre in Context: Dublin Stage
States of the Nation: Contemporary British Fiction
- Hilary Term only
The Revolutionary Muse
Early Modern Women Writers
Contemporary Irish Drama
List C
Tuesday 3-4; Thursday 2-3
- Year-Long
Martians, Detectives and Ghosts
Shakespeare’s Experiments in Tragedy
Irish Short Fiction
- Michaelmas Term only
The Poetry of War
Beckett’s Diminishing Prose
Art Writing
- Hilary Term only
The Marriage Plot
John Donne
Death in American Life and Letters
American Gothic
List D
Wednesday 10-12
- Year-Long
Creative Writing (SS students only)
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
Literary Monsters
The Authority of the Poet
Literary Childhoods
- Michaelmas Term only
Literature of the American South
Postmodern Fiction
'BLAST'
Home on the Stage
- Hilary Term only
George Orwell
The Pain of Unbelonging
Modernist Women’s Fiction
Open List
- Year-Long
Old Norse
History of the English Language
- Michaelmas Term only
Arthurian Literature
Reading Chaucer
Nineteenth Century Irish Writing Group One
Nineteenth Century Irish Writing Group Two - Piers Plowman
Lecture Course Available to Visiting Students
- The Book
- For more information on the course, please read the course syllabus.