English Essays

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Year Three

EN???20 - RT2 Literary Theory
1. "The subversiveness of a deconstructive reading of literary texts is a purely textual, not political phenomenon." (The Turn of the Screw, Henry James)
2. "The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond its title, the first line and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration, its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences."
(New Writing 9, Kennedy & Fowles ed. & Yes Prime Minister, Lynn & Jay)

EN???20 - Science-Fiction: From Frankenstein To Cyberpunk
1. Examine the relationship between science fiction and the Gothic in Frankenstein.
2. "When science fiction looks at the future, it is really looking at the here and now."
(Neuromancer, William Gibson & Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick)

EN30930 / EN30830 - Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature
1. "Not the opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale."
How do you interpret De Quincey´s (in)famous pronouncement on his Confessions of an English Opium Eater?
2. ‘There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies´ (Marlow in Heart Of Darkness.) Discuss the role of lies and self-deception in the novel.