| CODE | ENG1277 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Concepts of Literature | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is an introduction to some of the basic concepts of Literary Criticism. It will focus in particular on the concept of genre (the pastoral elegy and the epic). Reference will be made to the use of the pastoral elegy in English Literature and the appropriation of the epic style in poetry. The first part of the study-unit will also consider the notion of originality in the use of a literary convention. The second part will focus on the concept of Mimesis and the representation of reality in Literature with particular reference to the English novel. Reference will be made to Milton’s Lycidas and Book II of Paradise Lost. Notions of the representations of ‘reality’ in the development of the early modern novel will also be discussed. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to introduce students to the basic concepts of Literature and to enable them to apply these concepts to analysis of literary texts. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this study-unit, the student will be able to engage confidently with literary texts prescribed in their programme of studies. Reading List: - Burrow Colin, Epic Romance: Homer to Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). - G.S. Fraser, ‘Approaches to Lycidas ‘in The Living Milton ed. F. Kermode (Routledge 1964). - E,Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton 1974). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Giuliana Fenech |
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