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Sorry, this course was heavily oversubscribed and cannot take any more students into this class. Please use the course enquiry form to be kept informed of future runs of this course or to join the waiting list.
| Type | Weekly Classes |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxford |
| Address | Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford |
| Dates | Thu 4 Oct to Thu 6 Dec 2012 Day: Thursday Time of meeting: 7.30-9.30pm Number of meetings: 10 |
| Subject area(s) | Literature |
| CATS points | 10 |
| Fees | From £165.00 |
| Application status | Course full |
| Course code | O12P701LTW |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
If you enjoy reading but would like to get more from, and be introduced to a wider range of texts, this is for you. The Critical Reading course will help you to become a more attentive, appreciative, and critical reader.Description
This course will introduce you to the skills of close critical analysis which will enable you to become a more attentive, appreciative, and critical reader of literary texts. It will also introduce you to key concepts and movements in literary criticism, and to key terms of the critical idiom. Through exercises in the analysis of nineteenth- to twenty-first-century narrative fiction and poetry in English, you will learn how to develop your opinions about and responses to literary texts into informed and convincing arguments.Programme details
Week 1: What is literature? What is the difference between a review and an analysis, and between an opinion and an argument?Week 2: Analysis of narrative fiction: narrative voice and perspective; dialogue and interior monologue
Week 3: Analysis of narrative fiction: devices and techniques
Week 4: Figurative language; the critical idiom
Week 5: Analysis of poetry: metre, rhyme and other patterns
Week 6: Analysis of poetry: forms and free verse
Week 7: Using the critical idiom; writing effectively; developing and supporting an argument
Week 8: Using contextual material I: fallacies and traps
Week 9: Approaches to literature; student presentations II
Week 10: Summaries; student-led Q&A; feedback; further exploration and study
Background reading:
Abrams, M.H., A Glossary of Literary Terms (London: Cengage, 2008)
Bennett, A. and Royle, N., An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Harlow: Longman, 2004)
Staff
Dr Sandie Byrne
Role: Tutor
Dr Sandie Byrne was formerly Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford, and Chair of English at the University of Lincoln. She is now...more
Course aims
To help students to become more attentive and critical readers.Course objectives:
1. To introduce students to concepts and techniques of close critical analysis
2. To introduce students to key concepts of the critical idiom
3. To enable students to analyse a range of nineteenth to twenty-first century texts
Assessment methods
1000-word analysis of a text chosen from a selection of provided extracts .Teaching methods
Short talks by the tutor will be followed by the analysis of extracts (provided) from a range of textsTeaching outcomes
1. Students will have acquired skills of close critical analysis2. Students will have encountered key aspects of debates about literary value
3. Students will have encountered a range of writing in English
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Sorry, this course was heavily oversubscribed and cannot take any more students into this class. Please use the course enquiry form to be kept informed of future runs of this course or to join the waiting list.