Fresher Reading Lists and Module Descriptions 2020-21

Junior Fresher Single Honour (SH) Compulsory Modules

Michaelmas Semester

• Genres: Introduction to Literary Studies
• Imagining the Middle Ages
• Origins of English 1
• Shakespeare
• Writing Childhoods

Hilary Semester

• Irish Writing
• Early Modern Literature: Themes, Texts and Contexts
• Origins of English 2
• Cultures of Retelling
• Pulp: Introduction to Popular Literature
  

Senior Fresher Single Honour (SH) Compulsory Modules

Michaelmas Semester

• Writing the Body, 1690-1800: Race, Gender and Power
• British Romantic Literature, 1789-1830
• US American Identities: Harlem, Renaissance to the Present
• Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Hilary Semester

• Reading the Victorians
• Modernisms: Making it New
• Postcolonial Literature: Introduction to Key Debates and Texts
• Imagining the Contemporary: No Future
  

Senior Fresher Joint Honors (JH) Compulsory Modules

Michaelmas Semester

• Writing the Body, 1690-1800: Race, Gender and Power
• Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Hilary Semester

• Postcolonial Literature: Introduction to Key Debates and Texts
• Imagining the Contemporary: No Future

Trinity Elective Module

Michaelmas and Hilary Semester

What do we understand by the term ‘literature’? What do we mean by ‘travel’? How do we go about interpreting literary works of the past and the present? Drawing upon the expertise of the School of English across a wide range of literatures in English, this module will offer students from outside the discipline an opportunity to develop as informed and alert readers, as well as the chance to study a diverse group of stimulating texts. We live in a world where issues of travel dominate the headlines - Europe’s refugee crisis on land and sea, US immigration policy and the treatment of migrants, Brexit and the Irish border, and the global pandemic. This module is firmly positioned within the cultural context of these societal challenges and, throughout, you will explore the multiple ways in which English literature – past and present – engages with ideas of travel.