English Literature Summer School – Part 1 (Online)
An introduction to various critical approaches, including historicism and feminism, which will be used to explore early English literature. Ideal as a preparation to undergraduate study.
An introduction to various critical approaches, including historicism and feminism, which will be used to explore early English literature. Ideal as a preparation to undergraduate study.
This course will explore Romanticism, the Rise of the Novel, and Modernism with students being exposed to different critical approaches including post-colonial theory and the 'death of the author'.
The English Summer School – Part 3 will cover contemporary English Literature, including prose fiction, poetry and drama. We will be covering psychoanalytic criticism and theories of the canon as part of this Summer School.
The Philosophy Summer School will tackle some of the really big questions. We will engage in lively seminar discussions, close textual analysis and exegesis (critical explanation and interpretation of a text), use thought experiments to isolate philosophical intuitions and ideas, and explore our own and others attempted solutions to philosophical problems.
An intensive five-day Summer School looking at literature from a wide range of periods and contexts, and exploring a range of theoretical lenses, including historicist, feminist, post-colonial and psychoanalytic criticism.