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EAS 1035: Beginnings

Lecture: Monday 10-11am Newman A

Seminars: Weekly


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Some Themes of the Course

Authorship/authority

Translation/revision/transformation

Story-telling/truth

Genre, identity, nation, environment


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Schedule of Weeks

1. Stories of origin: extracts from Genesis and Atrahasis (On

ELE)2. The Odyssey, Homer

3. Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney

4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, tr. Bernard ODonoghue

5. Christopher Marlowe,Hero and Leander (On ELE)6. William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale

7. Selections fromArabian Nights Entertainments

8. John Milton,Paradise Lost, books 12, 4, 9

9. Alexander Pope,Essay on Man (On ELE)10. Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels

11. Mary Wollstonecraft,A Short Residence in Sweden


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Resources and Support

Beginnings on Exeter Learning Environment (ELE)

http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/


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Reading for Week 1

Genesis, Chapters 1-9

Atrahasis

Karen Armstrong, What is a Myth?, pp. 1-11


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Outline of Assessments

Form of assessment date due percentage of mark

1. 500 critical analysis 20.10.11 10%

2. 1000-word essay 24.11.11 30%

(includes peer review)1. 2000-word essay 15.12.11 50%

2. Seminar participation 10%

3. Group presentation exam week formative


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Tricia Zakreski208 Queens Building

Office Hours: Monday 11-1:00, Friday 11-12:00

[email protected]


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APPROACHES TO

MattHayler

[email protected]

Twitter

@cryurchi

Office Hours:

Tues 4-5

Thurs 2-3

Room 252

CRITICISM


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WHERE TO BE AND

WHENLecture EVERY WEEK(12 -1 in Newman A).

Seminar EVERY OTHER WEEK(odd numbers, 1-3-5-7-9-11).

Meet up in your study groupsevery two weeks before theseminar.


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Week 1 Reading:

William K. Wimsatt &Monroe C. Beardsley,

The Intentional Fallacy

(1230-46)

Roland Barthes,The Death of the

Author(1316-19, 1322-26)


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Assessment

1000 word

Mythologies

task.Formative assessment.

In on Thursday 10thNovember.

2000 word essay. In on 8th December.


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EAS1033 Critical Practice

Convenor: Dr. Sin Harris

Contact: [email protected]

Office: Queens Building, Room 116

Office Hours: Wednesday 11.30 12.30

& Friday 11.30 13.30
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Introduction

What are the aims of thismodule?

What will I study?

How will I be assessed?

Why is this important?

What help is available?


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Module Aims and Objectives

To introduce students to the conventions andpractices of studying English at university

To help students develop the research and writingskills required to succeed at this level

To provoke debate and discussion about the natureof writing and literary criticism


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Outline of the Module

Runs every other week (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) with a 1 hourlecture and a 2 hour seminar.

Students are also required to work in Study Groups,meeting once every fortnight for no more than 1 hour.

Total student study time is 150 hours (5 hours of lectures,10 hours of seminars, 5 hours of study groups and 130hours of private study)


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The Texts


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The Lectures

Week 2: Welcome to Studying English at University

Week 4: Quoting, Referencing and the Academic

Conversation Week 6: Reading to Write: Researching and

Applying Criticism and Theory

Week 8: Finding a Voice

Week 10: Approaches to Writing Discussion Panel


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The Assessment

MLA Referencing Exercise (10%) due Thursday 3rdNovember.

Synopsis of two critical articles, 800 1000 words(20%) due Thursday 17th November.

Essay draft, 1000 words (20%) due with peer groupon Thursday 1st December, due to office Thursday15th December.

Final essay , 1500 words (40%) due Thursday 15thDecember.

Seminar & Study Group participation (10%), ongoingfrom first seminar.


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Writing at University

Your essays must meetuniversity standards ofpresentation, formattingand referencing.

You need to demonstratean awareness of existingcritical debate, andprovide a well-structuredargument.

You need to think like ajunior academic ratherthan a pupil.


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Resources and Support

The ELE for this site has links to many usefulresources, databases and tutorials.

The Module Handbook is also available via the ELE this provides full details of the reading andassessments.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email

me, or call by during my office hours.


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Your Task List

Read the introduction and chapters 1 & 2 of GeraldGraffs Clueless in Academe (pages 1-61) and JohnBarth Lost in the Funhouse (available on the ELE).

Make sure that you know the time and place of yourseminar group.

Your first seminar will take place in Week 2,commencing Monday 10th October.

Your first lecture is on Tuesday 11th October at 5pm,in the Parker Moot Room (outside the AmoryBuilding).


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Seminar Preparation

Find a piece of non-fiction prose that you consider tobe well-written. For example, this could be from anewspaper, an academic book, a journal or a website.Please bring this along to your first seminar, and beprepared to discuss some of the following points:

What are the characteristics of 'good' writing?

Do these characteristics vary depending on the type of writingin question?

What is the relationship between the style of the writing andthe actual content of your chosen piece?

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