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) (MT)
- Irish Children’s Literature (PDF) (HT)
- The Poetry of Loss, 1667-1800 (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 (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)
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)
Dissertation Option
- Dissertation Option (YEAR-LONG) *SS only and is limited to 30 places.
Compulsory Course
- The Book *JSSH and JSTSM only.