Category: English Literature

Heroes and Epic (Wed 15 May 2019)

This week we’ll be thinking about heroes and epic, reading two texts as a starting-point: a short section from Dean Miller’s The Epic Hero and passages from Derek Walcott’s poem Omeros.

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Presenting Your Research: Advice & Practice Session (2pm, Tue 21 May)

This afternoon event will provide advice on presenting your research, followed by an opportunity to practice this in a friendly and informal setting. The advice session (14:00-15:00) will include tips on writing and delivering conference papers, framing your research topic for a non-specialist audience, and responding to questions (eg at conferences or in progress panels). … Continue reading “Presenting Your Research: Advice & Practice Session (2pm, Tue 21 May)”

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Works Loved: How Texts Matter To Us (27 March 2019)

Academia can often feel overwhelming, with multiple pressures competing for our time and headspace. This seminar is about remembering why we got into this business in the first place – namely, the ‘love’ (and we can discuss this term) we feel for the books, poems, and ideas that make up our discipline.

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Why Ecopoetry? (Wed 13 March, 2pm)

This week we are thinking about poetics and environmentalism, reading John Shoptaw’s essay ‘Why Ecopoetry?’ (2016). Many thanks to Miranda Jones for suggesting our text this week.

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The Work of Genre: Joseph Luzzi (Wed 5 Dec 2018)

This week we will be reading Joseph Luzzi’s discussion of the Work of Genre, where he analyses representations of labour and community in Wordsworth’s poem ‘Michael’ (1800) and Verga’s novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree) (1881).

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Forms: Cultural Studies and Close Reading (Wed 28 Nov 2018)

On Wednesday 28 November, we will read Angus Brown‘s essay “Cultural  Studies and Close Reading”. This essay uses a discussion of Caroline Levine’s Forms to explore the relationship between literature and lived experience, meditating, as Levine does, on the question of the distinction ‘between the formal and the social’.

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