tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9963187165310113642024-03-13T15:10:54.337+00:00EAC ManchesterJdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.comBlogger718125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-35211578010233646992014-12-23T16:02:00.001+00:002014-12-23T16:02:23.350+00:00ENGL10072 Literature and History ENGL10072 Literature and History Lecture Schedule/ Reading 1 Intro: Reading: TBC (one article) Early Modern 2 Milton, sonnets and sections from Paradise Lost/ Civil war (texts on Blackboard) 3 Dryden (texts on Blackboard) 4 Dryden (texts on Blackboard) Enlightenment to ‘Revolution(s)’ 5 Price/ Burke/ Barbauld/ Paine/ Wollstonecraft (texts on Blackboard) 6 JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-88775911622653261792014-12-23T16:01:00.001+00:002014-12-23T16:01:11.767+00:00ENGL10062 Theory and Text ENGL10062 Theory and Text Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory 4th Edition by Bennett & Royle (Taylor & Francis)* Mythologies by Barthes (Vintage) Poetics by Aristotle (Penguin Classics) Apology for Poetry by Sidney (Manchester University Press) Northanger Abbey by Austen (Norton Critical Edition *This is theJdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-9408672275619085732014-09-18T09:58:00.001+01:002014-09-18T09:58:23.741+01:00 Welcome to the Media Club. The Media Club is exclusively for University of Manchester students. We invite leading industry practitioners, on a regular basis throughout the academic year, to speak about key topics, their careers and getting into the media. Sessions are normally held on weekday evenings between 5pm-6.30pm. Let us know that you plan to come along by JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-8861330792069103852014-09-18T09:57:00.001+01:002014-09-18T09:57:48.575+01:00 Facebook group with useful information for English students https://www.facebook.com/groups/494948310574156 JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-16637677189751313062014-09-16T09:59:00.001+01:002014-09-16T09:59:12.994+01:00 Keen to gain experience alongside your degree? Interested in exploring your future options? Want to meet graduates doing the kind of work that interests you? Every week, in this bulletin, we’ll be telling you how to connect with a range of opportunities. Weekly events The Careers Service and Alumni Association are running weekly events for students within theJdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-44798460316030611652014-07-21T17:53:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:53:58.172+01:00AMER30772: Cities of Dreadful Delight Preliminary Reading for AMER30772: Cities of Dreadful Delight Dr Natalie Zacek Spring 2015 I do not expect students to have done any preliminary reading prior to the beginning of this module. Our readings will consist of journal articles and short extracts from primary sources, and I will continue to update the syllabus until the end of 2014. JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-39049538601573707372014-07-21T17:52:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:52:29.153+01:00AMER30471: Beyond the Sixties: Histories of Postwar Activism Suggested Reading: AMER30471: Beyond the Sixties: Histories of Postwar Activism * Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012) * Michael Foley, Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s (New York, 2013) * Stephanie Gilmore, Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-90974452937526281912014-07-21T17:51:00.003+01:002014-07-21T17:51:52.385+01:00AMER30461 Film and Politics in America University of Manchester Division of English, American Studies and Creative Writing (AMER30461) Film and Politics in America Content This course will examine representations of politics, politicians and political institutions through the eyes of a number of filmmakers and over the course of Hollywood's cinematic history. The aim is to incorporate JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-80938594621076610252014-07-21T17:51:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:51:51.451+01:00AMER30422 Occupy Everything AMER30422 Occupy Everything Preparatory reading list (2014-2015) All the Set Readings for Occupy Everything will be distributed in the course reading pack in Week 1. All set film texts will be available in High Demand in JRUL. Indicative primary reading for this course: Carla Blumenkraz, Keith Gessen, et. al., eds. Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. [Verso] Leonora JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-75429437086377183992014-07-21T17:50:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:50:21.402+01:00AMER30381 Conspiracy Theories in American Culture Conspiracy Theories in American Culture Dr Peter Knight Summer Reading The main reading for this course will be articles available on Blackboard in September. I have listed below (in order of importance) books that it would be good to read over the summer. All of these are available from the Library, and it might be worth buying some of them (marked with *). The other JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-80944926126597744542014-07-21T17:49:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:49:32.160+01:00AMER20492 Twentieth Century African American Literature Twentieth Century African American Literature Primary Texts: The Souls of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois, published by Dover Publications Inc. 1994 £2.00 paperback 9780486280417 The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, published by Dover Publications Inc. 1995 £2.00 paperback 9780486285122 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, published byJdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-68159192937939869712014-07-21T17:48:00.002+01:002014-07-21T17:50:24.205+01:00AMER 20481 American Literature and Social Criticism AMER 20481 American Literature and Social Criticism Reading and viewing list Cliff Odets, Waiting for Lefty (1935) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) (chapter 9) Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her (2012) Arthur Miller, Focus (1945) On The Waterfront, Elia Kazan, dir. (1954) film John Howard Griffin, Black JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-34153739583283323292014-07-21T17:48:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:48:41.917+01:00AMER20412: Southern Crossings Preliminary Reading for AMER20412: Southern Crossings Dr Natalie Zacek Spring 2015 I do not expect students to have done any preliminary reading prior to the beginning of this module. Our readings will consist of journal articles and short extracts from primary sources, and I will continue to update the syllabus until the end of 2014. Sam Jones l JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-26588478807012358902014-07-21T17:46:00.003+01:002014-07-21T17:46:34.387+01:00AMER 20141: From Jamestown to James Brown Suggested reading for AMER 20141: From Jamestown to James Brown: Set texts for this module: William R. Scott and William G. Shade, Upon These Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present (Routledge, 2000). <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Richard Wright, Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-72748510207955163202014-07-21T17:46:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:46:33.731+01:00AMER20111: Sports, Leisure, and Recreation in the Modern United States, 1880-2000 Suggested Reading List AMER20111: Sports, Leisure, and Recreation in the Modern United States, 1880-2000 * Deidre Clemente, ‘Made in Miami: The Development of the Sportwear Industry in South Florida, 1900-1960,’ Journal of Social History 41 (Fall, 2007) * Lawrence Culver, The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (New York, JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-82322175029557133782014-07-21T17:45:00.002+01:002014-07-21T17:47:13.372+01:00AMER20041 Aspects of American Political Culture UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ENGLISH, AMERICAN STUDIES and CREATIVE WRITING DIVISION Aspects of American Political Culture (AMER20041) Content This course seeks to analyse and interpret the processes and outcomes of American government and institutions through social and cultural as well as political themes and discourse. While the course aims to analyse each JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-43579381987155792442014-07-21T17:45:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:45:20.545+01:00AMER20072 – American Film Studies AMER20072 – American Film Studies Preliminary Reading: David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries 3rd edn. Sage, 2013 John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson eds, American Cinema and Hollywood. Oxford UP, 1998 Joanne Hollows et al, eds, The Film Studies Reader. Arnold, 2000 Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema. IB Taurus, 2002. Robert |Lapsley and Michael Westlake,JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-65810393664505705272014-07-21T17:43:00.003+01:002014-07-21T17:43:14.136+01:00ENGL33041 Writing Workers/Workers Writing Reading List for Writing Workers/Workers Writing Please note that some of the material for this course will only be available via Blackboard and/or in a course handbook at the start of the next academic year. However, the following primary texts are widely available; Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, (1839) [often available in selections of Carlyle's writings] Benjamin JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-84875558238622815292014-07-21T17:43:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:43:11.132+01:00ENGL33031 The Word: Performing, Reading, Writing the Bible The Word: Performing, Reading, Writing the Bible (c. 1380-c. 1611) ENGL 33031 Dr Anke Bernau (2014-15) Preliminary / Indicative Reading List You will receive a course booklet containing most of the primary reading material for the course at the beginning of the semester. However, if you wish to begin your reading over the summer, which you are encouraged to doJdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-24899105426143107122014-07-21T17:41:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:41:45.105+01:00ENGL33021: Lord Byron ENGL33021: Lord Byron Syllabus and Preliminary Reading 2014-15 The syllabus for this course will run as follows. Many of the texts can be comfortably read in a week. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan, however, cannot and you should try to read these over the summer, especially Don Juan. The recommended editions of Byron’s works are Jerome McGann (ed.), JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-51166070895325217112014-07-21T17:39:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:39:48.217+01:00ENGL 31761: Revenge Tragedy: Wild Justice on the English Renaissance Stage ENGL 31761: Revenge Tragedy: Wild Justice on the English Renaissance Stage Primary reading Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Shakespeare, Hamlet Middleton(?), The Revenger’s Tragedy Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Webster, The White Devil Middleton, Women Beware Women Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore All of JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-46414728890034359122014-07-21T17:37:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:37:17.952+01:00ENGL31622 Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture Dr James Paz Anglo-Saxon ‘things’ could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Old English riddles, telling us where they came from, how they were made, what they do. Readers of The Dream of the Rood will come across a tree possessing the voice of a dreaming human in order to talk about its own JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-54472568460989671472014-07-21T17:35:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:35:18.643+01:00ENGL31252 LOL: The Serious Business of Comedy in Fiction, Theatre, and Film LOL: The Serious Business of Comedy in Fiction, Theatre, and Film (ENGL 31252) Semester 2, 2014-15 Course description In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine how British and American novelists, playwrights and filmmakers have turned to comedy and humour from the eighteenth century to the present day. Charting a range of literary and cultural representations, we will JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-7942565383196847092014-07-21T17:34:00.001+01:002014-07-21T17:34:15.643+01:00ENGL31241 Crossing Over with Tilda Swinton Crossing Over with Tilda Swinton (ENGL 31241) Reading and Viewing List Jackie Stacey, EAC Summary Outline Block 1: From Androgyny to Transgender Films to view: Orlando, Female Perversions, The Stars (Are Out Tonight) This first section of the course will examine Swinton’s performance of gender and sexuality through an analysis of feminist and queer theories of JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996318716531011364.post-52311788286925480162014-07-21T17:31:00.000+01:002014-07-21T17:32:01.100+01:00ENGL31231 - Contemporary Short Fiction ENGL31231 - Contemporary Short Fiction Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009) Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2014) Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (1998) Alice Munro, Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo & Rose (1977) Alice Munro, Dear Life (2012) Ali Smith, Artful (2012) One JdGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18052976414131076503noreply@blogger.com0