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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers).
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II Post-Theory

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity. After the theory wars and the global dissemination of the work of acknowledged theory ‘masters', this course asks: “What does theory matter now?” Taking as given the legacy of literary and cultural theory, the course considers the variety of theoretical writing, its objects and concerns, which may be characterised as post-theory.
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University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II Post-Theory Interpreting Janet Frame

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity. After the theory wars and the global dissemination of the work of acknowledged theory ‘masters', this course asks: “What does theory matter now?” Taking as given the legacy of literary and cultural theory, the course considers the variety of theoretical writing, its objects and concerns, which may be characterised as post-theory. An exploration of the fiction of renowned writer Janet Frame. Using interpretative theory and reader-response strategies, the course addresses the challenge of developing enabling critical contexts for Frame's novels. Conversely, Frame's novels are used as a means of exploring the reading process and the dynamics involved in the act of interpretation.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II Post-Theory Interpreting Janet Frame Shakespeare from Stage to Page, 1590 - 1640

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity. After the theory wars and the global dissemination of the work of acknowledged theory ‘masters', this course asks: “What does theory matter now?” Taking as given the legacy of literary and cultural theory, the course considers the variety of theoretical writing, its objects and concerns, which may be characterised as post-theory. An exploration of the fiction of renowned writer Janet Frame. Using interpretative theory and reader-response strategies, the course addresses the challenge of developing enabling critical contexts for Frame's novels. Conversely, Frame's novels are used as a means of exploring the reading process and the dynamics involved in the act of interpretation. Studies the development of the theatre in the half-century encompassing Shakespeare's career and after, and its relation to the print industry of the same period. Treats authors and writing, acting, company structure, audiences, censorship, book production, publication and readership. Involves extensive use of primary and rare materials.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II Post-Theory Interpreting Janet Frame Shakespeare from Stage to Page, 1590 - 1640 Research Essays

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity. After the theory wars and the global dissemination of the work of acknowledged theory ‘masters', this course asks: “What does theory matter now?” Taking as given the legacy of literary and cultural theory, the course considers the variety of theoretical writing, its objects and concerns, which may be characterised as post-theory. An exploration of the fiction of renowned writer Janet Frame. Using interpretative theory and reader-response strategies, the course addresses the challenge of developing enabling critical contexts for Frame's novels. Conversely, Frame's novels are used as a means of exploring the reading process and the dynamics involved in the act of interpretation. Studies the development of the theatre in the half-century encompassing Shakespeare's career and after, and its relation to the print industry of the same period. Treats authors and writing, acting, company structure, audiences, censorship, book production, publication and readership. Involves extensive use of primary and rare materials. A number of essays are written with guidance from a supervisor, focusing on a field, author, genre or period of literature.
Score: 5.4905925 Details | Listing | Web page

University of Auckland - Foundation English 1 Foundation English 2 Early Texts: Pilgrims to Players Literature and the Contemporary Fundamental Questions: Desire Drama on Stage and Screen Literature From Sonnets to Comics Global Literatures: Contested Spaces Reading/Writing/Text Middle English: Chaucer and Romance English Language to 1900 Age of Shakespeare: Poetry Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Nineteenth Century Literature Novels Since 1900 New Zealand Literature Modern Poetry Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Children's Literature: Words and Pictures Literature and Science Creative Writing: Introduction Tolkien and his Worlds Writing and Culture Writing Theory and Practice Studies in American Literature Special Topic in Writing Studies: Writing Selves Middle English Popular Literature Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Middle English Popular Literature The Novel, the Native and the New Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragicomedies Major Works: 16th and 17th Centuries Victorian Literature Theory and the Gothic Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Drama Victorian Poetry Arthurian Literature Middle English: Major Works Writing Poetry Writing the Short Story Adolescent Fiction African and Caribbean Literature Poetry Off the Page From Rhetorics to Writing Love and its Literature Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy Special Topic in Writing: Writing Selves New Zealand Literature Novels since 1900 Studies in American Literature Te Torino: Pasifika Literature Middle English: Chaucer and Romance Reinventing Ireland Hollywood: The Book Writing and Culture Writing Technologies Sexual Scene: Literature, Cinema, Architecture Stages of Religion Two Poets: A Comparative Study Modernism and the Contemporary Shakespeare: Selected Plays and Poems Writing World War II Post-Theory Interpreting Janet Frame Shakespeare from Stage to Page, 1590 - 1640 Research Essays Pacific Poetry in English

Written and spoken English, and the study of New Zealand English as one variety among many will be developed through the study of literature. Short stories and novels by New Zealand and other authors will be studied. Work by Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Janet Frame will be offered as well as work by writers from other countries around the world. New Zealand and other poets will introduce students to poetry. Students will learn how to unpack language and discover the essence of what a poet wishes to express. Students are encouraged to view a production together before producing a scene from a play. Two films are reviewed for filming technique and the film as literature is considered. An introduction to the pleasures of early literature through study of works by the foremost writers of the medieval to Renaissance period, especially works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Explores relations both between works and between writers of a past age and readers of the present. Investigates the responses to our world that literature makes possible through an exploration of such themes as love, war, memory, terror, God, myth, murder, dreams in contemporary novels, poetry, drama and fiction on film. The significance of the idea of desire is at the forefront of recent critical thought. What is desire? How does the idea of desire have currency in our creative texts; how does it function in familiar genres such as poetry, prose, drama and film? Critical thinking about desire provides a unifying device for the texts and resources studied. An introduction to conventions of dramatic practice and to the dimension of performance, both on stage and screen. Discussion of performance will extend to broader issues such as self-representation and gender. The texts studied will represent different types of dramatic styles, primarily from the twentieth century, and will include some pairings of play texts and screen productions. An introduction to masterpieces of literature from Shakespeare to the present, to a wide range of genres, and to literary terms, contexts, theory and approaches. Covers central issues in international postcolonial, settler and indigenous writing by examining a small selection of texts from the late nineteenth century (Kipling and Stevenson) and a larger selection of contemporary texts from several geographically diverse regions: India, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. A course developing University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Introduction to the history of the English language from its origins to 1900, with an emphasis on the development of sound changes, grammar, words and meanings in sociocultural and historical contexts. A study of one of the greatest periods of English poetry, beginning with the sonnets of Shakespeare and ending with the splendour of Milton's Paradise Lost. Included are the sonnets of Spenser and Sidney, Donne's profane and religious poetry, Herbert's intricate and Marvell's witty verse and finally the poetry of Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century - poetry, fiction and drama - as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of their time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. Demonstrates how writers undertook to rethink the creative text and how their efforts to define ‘the contemporary' mark a vital shift in Western cultural practice. Studies twentieth-century poetry at a time of immense social upheaval and experimentation in which definitions of art, culture and ‘the human' shifted as familiar values were contested. Introduces the concerns and methods of contemporary criticism through an examination of a number of key concepts central to the study of literature, film and other media. The history of these concepts is explored, as are the theoretical issues they raise and the reading strategies they permit. Emphasises theory as an activity that enriches our reading and writing. Introduces critical reading of the twentieth century's achievements in combining verbal text and visual image in children's literature. Texts studied cover a range of reading ages, offering opportunities to compare local and overseas texts. Attention is especially drawn to the socialisation of the child through reading and to the interpretation of visual materials. Explores the relations between literature and science past and present, including science fiction, science in fiction, creativity and criticism in science and in literature, narrative and metaphor as ways of understanding in science and in literature, literature about science, science writing (science as literature), science on literature and science and literature on human nature. Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning. Study of the Lord of the Rings with particular reference to Tolkien's use of Celtic, Germanic and Christian myths; an introduction to some of the most formative and influential mythologies of European culture. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Focuses on theories of literacy and written discourse in personal, public, educational and professional contexts and examines these theories through case studies and critical analysis. Students explore rhetoric and argument by writing for different audiences and media in different genres, including critical analysis, narrative and mixed media. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Studies popular works in lyric, dramatic and narrative genres. Lyrics are often amorous, sometimes political, frequently devotional; narrative includes comic tale, fable, romance and outlaw tale; drama comprises the major theatrical traditions of morality and biblical history cycle plays. Covers texts written for religious purposes, as well as secular, but socially embedded and often with pleasure among their aims. An inquiry into the genre and nature of the ‘novel' in the eighteenth century, focusing on new worlds opened up by science and travel, commerce and the book industry, women's writing and the developing public sphere, cultural contact and colonialism. The novel is considered both a problem of the modern and a means of negotiating unprecedented phenomena. A study of selected comedies and tragicomedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Works of Shakespeare may include the romantic comedies of his first decade and a half as a playwright, the so-called ‘problem plays', the darker comedies of his middle years, and the tragicomedies of his final years, sometimes called ‘romances'. The nature of comedy and its relationship to tragedy is also explored. The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, are studied in considerable depth and detail. Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontē, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner. Advances the understanding of contemporary theory and cultural studies through the study of a selection of classic Gothic writing from the nineteenth century and films from the twentieth, together with influential psychoanalytical, new historical and queer studies treatments of Gothic material. An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture. A study of drama since the 1970s. Addressing the plays primarily as theatre texts, it emphasises the theatrical strategies and conventions deployed in the texts, some of which self-consciously celebrate theatricality. Teaching combines lectures, discussions, play-readings and viewing theatrical videos. A study of a range of Victorian poets, ranging from canonical figures to women poets who have received sustained critical attention only in recent years. Focal points of the course are the religious and spiritual issues raised by social change, the discourse of love and sexuality and the practice of the dramatic monologue. The Arthurian story, from its first passage into French in the twelfth century. The English writings are studied in comparison with their French sources and counterparts (in translation). Works studied include poems of the Alliterative Revival (such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman). Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems. Conceived as a writing workshop, this course guides students through the theory and practice of writing the short story. It involves one lecture per week and a two-hour workshop taken by professional writers. Workshops focus on teaching students the skills that will help them in writing their own short stories. Adolescence is a problematic category and a peculiarly modern one; necessarily, the same holds true for adolescent fiction. The aim of this course is to examine this phase of development that is neither childhood nor adulthood but lies between, and recent literary and filmic responses to the characteristic interests and demands of readers at this stage of their lives. Course reading will include film and television, as well as written texts. The Caribbean, by virtue of its geography and history, embraces cultural elements of Africa, India, Europe and North America. The focus, however, will primarily be on Caribbean and African societies in order to address a range of issues connected to these variously hybrid cultures: slavery, black identity and sexuality, nation/narration, home and location/dislocation. The most recent technologies for performing and preserving poetry are in the process of coalescing with the oral roots of the art form. This shift in transmission and retrieval and its implications for reading communities is examined in three areas: poetry reading (live performance and audiovisual record); the poetry archive (physical and electronic); and digital poetry (virtual communities, real readers). Explores writing through discussion of theories of language use, especially issues raised by theorists of rhetoric and composition: cognitive process theory, discourse analysis, language as a social semiotic, literary studies, race and gender, writing for new technologies. The course centres on writing theory but there is a practical dimension: students investigate their present writing practices and consider possible future challenges. A study of the state of being in love as it is represented in literature. The course ranges widely in history and world cultures to consider the kinds of writing generated by the experience of love and the modes of reading such writing encourages. The role of the literature of love in sustaining the complex enjoyments love causes will be considered. An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts. Extends student skills in critical reading and composition while critically exploring changing concepts of the self. Considers the nationalist and historicising functions traditionally assigned to biographies and autobiographies, issues of authorship, genre, form, and convention, sexual and gender politics in life writing, and the controversial borderline between fiction and auto/biography. Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now. A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts. Focus varies from year to year but will include major authors and central themes in the literature of the United States of America. Key issues discussed may include the influence of Puritanism and the Frontier, the legacy of slavery, immigration and the city, modernism, attitudes towards nature and gender. Pasifika literature (defined as Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific writing in English) is characterised by multiple crossings of cultural, social, political, gendered and geographical borders. Contemporary texts in English across three genres (poetry, short story, drama) will be examined in light of recent theories of indigenous writing, diaspora and identity. An introduction to medieval narrative centred on the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the fourteenth century and one of the finest narrative poets in the language. Along with the Chaucer tales, we study a number of contemporary short romances, mostly anonymous, that display the narrative possibilities of the genre, the typical interest in adventure and passion, as well as the textual practices employed by poets in a manuscript or performance culture. Combines historical and theoretical frameworks to explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness' through a range of novels, plays, short stories and poetry. The focus is the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the treatment of the ‘New Ireland' in literature since 2000. Considers the effect of cinema on the literary imagination. Commencing with early cinema's influence on modernist writing and the thematic centrality of Hollywood novels in the American literary tradition, this course will introduce students to a wide range of Hollywood literatures including pulp fictions and the literature of celebrity scandal, recent literary experiments in cinematic forms and the Hollywood counter-tradition of filmic representations of writing. Students use selected materials of public and popular culture to practise and develop skills in creative thinking, critical analysis, argument and writing, with reference to issues of public concern in the domain of global culture. Examines writing studies in technologised contexts of imaginative art and literate communications. The course considers the writer's situation in writing environments that continue to add multiple tools and technologies for understanding, negotiating and fashioning self and world. An interdisciplinary interrogation of sexual space in literature, cinema and architecture. This course uses Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope to consider the relation between time, place and sexual identity. Topics include: literary modernism and sexual space, the sexual life of apartments, sexuality and the built environment and the material location of writing. The history of English religion through the longer Reformation period, as reflected and addressed especially in the drama of the period, from the Cycle-plays to Milton. Combines English history and history of religion with issues of dramatic history and performance. Extensive use of primary and rare materials. An investigation of the major works and determining poetics of two poets whose ideas and practice address one another across time and geopolitical space, local and international boundaries, print and web-based resources. The work of six Modernist poets intensely concerned with ideas of the contemporary (T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens) within the context of Modernism, the defining international ‘movement' of the twentieth century, known for its narratives of crisis and transformation. The focus of this course varies from year to year but includes attention to several of the most influential approaches to the reading of Shakespearean texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and post-colonial theory. Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity. After the theory wars and the global dissemination of the work of acknowledged theory ‘masters', this course asks: “What does theory matter now?” Taking as given the legacy of literary and cultural theory, the course considers the variety of theoretical writing, its objects and concerns, which may be characterised as post-theory. An exploration of the fiction of renowned writer Janet Frame. Using interpretative theory and reader-response strategies, the course addresses the challenge of developing enabling critical contexts for Frame's novels. Conversely, Frame's novels are used as a means of exploring the reading process and the dynamics involved in the act of interpretation. Studies the development of the theatre in the half-century encompassing Shakespeare's career and after, and its relation to the print industry of the same period. Treats authors and writing, acting, company structure, audiences, censorship, book production, publication and readership. Involves extensive use of primary and rare materials. A number of essays are written with guidance from a supervisor, focusing on a field, author, genre or period of literature. A critical engagement with poetry written in English by the peoples of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia). Pacific aesthetics and epistemologies evident in orature and art, in addition to post-colonial and women of colour feminist theories, will be used in the construction of culturally insightful frameworks to better appreciate this dynamic literature that spans from the 1970s to the present day.
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