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Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly classes.
Content: This survey module builds on the first-year modules Interpreting Latin Literature and Interpreting Greek Literature and is designed to provide a general critical background to the author and theme-based literature modules taught both in the original language and in translation. The module will analyse ways in which a range of modern critical techniques (including reception theory, feminist criticism, structuralism, post-colonialism) can enhance our reading of Greek and Latin texts. Emphasis will placed be on the relationship between these different approaches and a specific selection of texts across a range of Greek and Roman authors, periods and genres.
厂办颈濒濒蝉:听At the end of the module students should:
1. have engaged with questions of literary interpretation relevant to reading classical texts;
2. have a good understanding of how literary theory has evolved historically alongside developments in classical scholarship;
3. have a sound knowledge of the relevant primary and secondary bibliography;
4. be able to deploy appropriate evidence and test arguments in oral discussion and written analysis
5. be able to deploy evidence and argument effectively in written presentation.
Preliminary reading: Bennett, A., & Royle, N. Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. 5th edition.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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