EN20120 - Eighteenth Century & Restoration
‘Restoration comedies are simply about sex in its various manifestations from prostitution to romantic tenderness and not vehicles for social criticism.´ Discuss Wycherly´s The Country Wife and Behn´s The Rover in light of this statement.
EN20120 - Modern Literary Theory
‘Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of the text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.’ Assess the implications of this statement.
(With reference to Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne, news and popular culture.)
EN34720 - Detective & Crime Fiction
1. “Detective fiction is a defensive reaction against the unknowability of the modern world.” Discuss.
(Primary texts for this essay: The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler & The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)
2. ‘If the purpose of detection is the discovery of hidden identity, the effect of the process of detection is the forging of new identities for the characters caught up in it.’ Discuss some of the tensions that arise in the treatment of ‘identity’ in detective and crime fiction in the light of this comment.
(Texts: Beneath The Blonde, Stella Duffy & Cabal, Michael Dibdin.)
EN33120 - Women, Writing & Religion In The Middle Ages
1. Virginia Woolf claimed that medieval women did not write ‘for writing´s sake.' What reasons did medieval women have for writing and what sort of texts did they produce?
2. Write on the representation of the body and/or female sexuality, and/or sexual violence in at least two texts on the course.