Survey Of English Literature
AY2025/2026 Semester 1
This course covers over one thousand years of English writing, from Anglo-Saxon to Neoclassical literature. We will focus primarily on the relationship between 'form' and 'history' in seeking to understand this literature, where 'form' refers to a given text's genre or mode (e.g., 'revenge tragedy'), its linguistic and narrative characteristics, and so on, while 'history' means both material and cultural formations as these change through time. While we will engage closely with questions of traditional literary history, we will also consider how more recent ways of reading and thinking about literature'from deconstruction to queer theory' might enrich our understanding of these mostly canonical works. The course will touch upon a number of 'big' themes in English literature, with particular emphasis on the rise of individualism and the impact of the Reformation on early-modern culture and thought.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreMinorsBDE |
| Exam |
Available Indexes
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |||||
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| 930 | 17213 TUT (T1) 0930-1020 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17213 TUT (T1) 0930-1020 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17218 TUT (T6) 0930-1020 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17218 TUT (T6) 0930-1020 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||
| 1000 | |||||||||
| 1030 | 17214 TUT (T2) 1030-1120 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17214 TUT (T2) 1030-1120 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17219 TUT (T7) 1030-1120 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17219 TUT (T7) 1030-1120 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||
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| 1130 | 17216 TUT (T4) 1130-1220 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17216 TUT (T4) 1130-1220 Fri LHS-TR+25, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17221 TUT (T9) 1130-1220 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17221 TUT (T9) 1130-1220 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||
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| 1230 | |||||||||
| 1300 | |||||||||
| 1330 | 17220 TUT (T8) 1330-1420 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17220 TUT (T8) 1330-1420 Fri LHS-TR+26, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||||
| 1400 | |||||||||
| 1430 | COMMON LEC (LEC1) 1430-1620 Thu HSSAUDIT, ONLINE Wk1-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | COMMON LEC (LEC1) 1430-1620 Thu HSSAUDIT, ONLINE Wk1-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||||
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| 1530 | |||||||||
| 1600 | |||||||||
| 1630 | 17215 TUT (T3) 1630-1720 Thu HSS-TR+5, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | 17215 TUT (T3) 1630-1720 Thu HSS-TR+5, ONLINE Wk2-9,11-13, Teaching Wk10 | |||||||
| 1700 | |||||||||