Showing 73 courses for the subject English Literature
This course offers an introduction to the world of digital storytelling and data journalism. It introduces ethical, cultural, and technical issues related to digital data and provides practical experience in creating engaging narratives using textual...
Great Ideas
FHSS103
Great Ideas is a course reflecting on some of the most exciting, important and revolutionary ideas that have shaped society and culture as it is today. It also considers how those ideas have an ongoing influence. It’s an interdisciplinary course look...
"Wild Civility" introduces some of the great English texts from the medieval to the Romantic period (1380-1830). It explores literature from the bawdy tales of Chaucer, to the drama and poetry of the age of Shakespeare, to the verse of the Romantic p...
Twenty-first century New Zealand literature in English has been shaped by a variety of cultures, literatures, traditions and practices: Māori, Pasifika, European, and Asian- from the tangata whenua to the various tangata tiriti. These encounters- on ...
This course examines five hundred years of popular literature, from the ballad to the graphic novel, focusing on the genres of romance, gothic, the detective story, and science fiction. Particular attention will be paid to the way that literary conve...
ENGL 116 is an introduction to the reading of Shakespeare focused on close study of a single play with associated material. The main focus will be on understanding the text, with detailed attention to Shakespeare's language, imagery, and rhetoric, as...
Introduction to Narrative
ENGL117
How does fiction work? What happens when we approach the reading of fiction as an experience? What does it mean to respond to a voice crafted in prose? This course aims to provide students with some essential tools for the study of narrative. We read...
Even in a modern world dominated by visual and digital media, written communication remains the most essential and powerful tool not only in the university but in all social and professional contexts. This course draws on traditions of literary and c...
Reading and Writing Poetry
LCCM172
The course teaches skills in both critical and creative reading and writing, through engagement with a wide range of poetry. You will explore the effects of concision, ornament, sentence structure, repetition, metre and form.
An exploration of the history of literature(s) in English, from the Anglo-Saxons to contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. It is built around case studies of a series of major texts in their changing historical and cultural contexts, the texts being link...
This course will explore literature written in the territory that is now the United States of America as the new colonial nation expanded across the continent during the nineteenth century. We will focus in particular on literature by Indigenous, Bla...
Modernist Literature
ENGL203
A survey of British, Irish and American literature from 1899 to the Second World War. This course studies many of the major writers of the Modernist period and includes poetry, short stories, novels, plays, film and the visual arts. Particular attent...
Dramaturgies of the West
THEA205
This course explores the development, theory, and practice of Western dramaturgy from Romanticism to the present. Dramaturgy is the study of how meaning is generated in drama and performance. Students will learn and practice a suite of analytic and s...
Shakespeare
ENGL208
A study of a group of plays by Shakespeare (and his contemporaries), focusing particularly on their treatment of gender difference and gender ambiguity. The plays will be approached both as literary texts and as scripts for stage performance and film...
The Realist Novel
ENGL209
The English novel from its beginnings to 1930, with special attention to a selection of major works. The lectures discuss the novel's general historical development, special areas of interest, and individual authors and works; tutorials give practice...
Science Fiction
ENGL211
Science Fiction as a literary genre from its beginnings to the present day, with special attention to a selection of canonical works. The lectures discuss Science Fiction’s general historical development, special areas of interest, and individual aut...
A study of the diverse theatrical practices of theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand from the pre-colonial era to the present. There will be a core focus on how on how cultural identities have been formed and expressed through performance and playwriting. ...
An introduction to the influence of the classics (Greek and Roman) on English literature from the middle ages to the present. The course focuses on the transformations of some key classical myths and two classical genres. Classical texts are read in ...
This course traces the gothic from the haunting of castles and monasteries of the eighteenth century through the terrifying forests and jungles of the nineteenth century to the suburbs of the late twentieth century city. Particular attention will be...
Modern Poetry
ENGL231
What makes a poem 'modern'? How have poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries responded to the challenge of imaging the modern? Reading poets from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, this course explores how modern...
New Zealand Literature
ENGL234
A thematic and historical study of New Zealand literature from the eighteenth century to the present focussing on such issues as: fantasies of place and encounter; the ecologies of the colonial world; cultural nationalism and literature as ‘a home in...
Children's Literature
ENGL244
The course introduces the study of children's literature through a substantial selection of texts by a range of recognised authors - normally including a New Zealand writer.
This course explores the relationship between English literature and journalism from the 18th to the 21st century. It considers questions of fact and fiction, objectivity, and style, across a range of genres. Students have the opportunity to produce ...
Poetry Workshop - He Rotarota
CREW253
A workshop course in writing poetry which also involves wide reading in the genre.
A workshop course in writing short fiction which also involves wide reading in the genre.
A workshop course in writing for children which also involves wide reading of children's literature.
Special Topic: TBA
CREW256
TBA
A workshop course in writing creative nonfiction (e.g. memoirs, travel writing) which also involves representative reading in the genre.
A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.
A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.
This creative writing workshop is a practical paper for students who wish to produce fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry or scriptwriting which is informed by Māori or Pasifika perspectives, cultures and origins, the process of colonisation, or que...
Literature and Journalism
LCCM271
This course explores the relationship between English literature and journalism from the 18th to the 21st century. It considers questions of fact and fiction, objectivity, and style, across a range of genres. Students have the opportunity to produce ...
Not merely a tool of academic assessment, the essay is an art form with a long and rich history in English and other literatures. This course analyses classic essays from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and uses these as models for students' own...
The proliferation of digital media is pushing the boundaries of literary and creative communication in Oceania. This course is grounded in the digital and environmental humanities as it asks students to navigate Indigenous transformations of writing ...
Dramaturgies of the West
THEA305
This course explores the development, theory, and practice of Western dramaturgy from Romanticism to the present. Dramaturgy is the study of how meaning is generated in drama and performance. Students will learn and practice a suite of analytic and s...
Troy and Troilus
ENGL307
A close study of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, read in the context of its forerunners and successors, including Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid', Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and Chaucer's source poem, the Italian Renaissance author Boccac...
Renaissance Literature
ENGL308
A study of early modern English poetry and drama from 1560-1680, the flowering of the Renaissance to the English Civil Wars. The course focuses on themes of love and friendship, conscience, selfhood, gender, society and the state. Focal texts are sel...
Special Topic: TBC
LCCM310
Romantic Literature
ENGL311
This course will explore literature written in the Romantic period (1789-1832) and its afterlives. We will study the major canonical British writers of the period as well as Black and Indigenous writers who engaged with Romanticism and its legacies. ...
Victorian Literature
ENGL312
This course examines a selection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from the Victorian period, under the broad categories of gender and sexuality, religious doubt, and empire. It deals with such central nineteenth-century literary and cultural preocc...
Early English Literature
ENGL313
This course explores early English literature—that is, literature written before the age of print (approximately from the 7th to the 15th centuries). It begins with texts written in Old English, looking in particular at the elegy and passages from th...
The Reformation was among other things a cultural revolution. This course examines its impact in England. It begins with late Middle English romances and includes one of the York mystery plays and medieval lyrics featuring Christ as knight and lover....
This course examines the literature of the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the changing role of the writer, the emergence of journalism and the novel, travel, colonisation and imperialism, and the connections between literature and p...
A study of gender in literature from the English Renaissance to the 21st century, including literary representation of queer and non-binary gender identities. The course also explores the integral relationship of gender theory and literary studies.
Postcolonial Literature
ENGL330
This course considers the impact of colonialism on the development of modern literature, with a particular focus on texts responding to the colonisation of the Korean peninsula and the freedom movements resisting this colonisation. Students will read...
New Zealand Literature
ENGL331
This course is organised into distinct and discrete modules, which may examine, in turn, a particular author or a recurrent literary motif or a particular genre or a singular text considered in terms of their significance within the corpus of New Zea...
This course will be concerned with studying the developments in American Literature, in prose and poetry, from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The course considers the impact of major literary movements of the 20th century, including Mod...
Awkward Books
ENGL334
What leads people to ban, burn, censor, censure or generally revile works of literature? This course will investigate the relationship between literary fiction and ethics by reading a series of controversial novels written in the last hundred years a...
This course will explore how contemporary fiction responds to climate change, and in particular the task of reimaging human relationships with the environment and the non-human. The course will investigate questions about systems of collective behavi...
This interdisciplinary course investigates how literary texts act as sources for or manifestations of Indigenous law and how legal texts can be interpreted using the tools of literary analysis. Working with texts by Indigenous authors from Aotearoa, ...
Public Writing
LCCM371
In this course you will connect your literary and creative communication skills to writing that addresses the public sphere(s). You will look at classic and contemporary examples of public and political writing, from Wollstonecraft and Orwell to Te P...
Developing the themes of LCCM 272 The Art of the Essay, this course offers advanced critical analysis and creative practice of more specialised forms of non-fictional written communication. Topics include digital writing (from the tweet to the multi-...
The dream poem was one of the most popular medieval literary genres, which almost all major English poets explored. This course will study poems by Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl-poet and others, reading their works against traditional theories of drea...
A study of poetry and politics in the English revolution, with a focus on the poetry of Andrew Marvell and the complete texts of John Milton's Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Students taking this course will be encouraged to think about the relat...
This course deals with a group of Shakespeare's plays set in the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. It will raise questions of what classical antiquity means to Shakespeare, how he uses it dramatically, and whether there is any consistency i...
Modern Poetry
ENGL422
A study of the scope and possibility of the modern lyric; issues in contemporary poetic theory including concepts of voice, race, the politics of form and the role of the lyric in a time of crisis; and the relation between the poetry and poetics of s...
This course looks at the works of Katherine Mansfield in a variety of contexts: colonial literature, the decadents, Russian literature, modernism, the Bloomsbury group. It examines her relationships with D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, whom she kne...
A cross-disciplinary study of a central classical text, Ovid's epic poem Metamorphoses, and its afterlife in English literature from the middle ages to the early 21st century. No knowledge of classical languages assumed.
Romantic Studies
ENGL427
This course explores texts, topics, and authors of the Age of Sensibility and of the Romantic Period. Topics vary from year to year. In 2020 the topic is 'John Keats, Poetics, Empathy, and Care'.
Contemporary Fiction
ENGL428
The Literatures of New Zealand, Australia and Canada are not as discrete as we might suppose. Connected to problems of belonging, they open out the complications and contradictions of national, postcolonial discourses and invite us to ask: what is th...
Eighteenth-Century Studies
ENGL429
This course examines texts, topics and authors from the long eighteenth century (1680-1840).
Literary Scholarship
ENGL430
This course introduces the basic tenets of two of the most influential currents in literary criticism from the past century, Freudian psychoanalytic theory and Marxism, and considers some of the challenges and criticisms they have attracted. It exami...
The Culture of Modernism
ENGL433
This course studies some of the most engaging canonical texts of the first half of the twentieth century. It will be particularly concerned with the cultural and social context in which these texts were written.
This course will explore issues between literature and technology, tracing the history of Utopia and Science Fiction. Attention is given to the role of the body as technology in literature. Literature as technology and Science Fiction's role as genre...
A Special Genre: Fantasy
ENGL441
A study of a range of fantasy texts in English, written for adults and for children, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The course will explore changing conceptions of fantasy, and a range of critical approaches to and defences of the ge...
How did writers of the mid-nineteenth century imagine the place of humans in a more-than-human world? How did developments in the natural sciences re-shape how we imagine our entanglements, human and nonhuman? This seminar will explore these broad qu...
The renaissance is often thought of in terms of high ideals. But the period produced a wealth of irreverent material projecting a pragmatic view of human nature. This paper will examine some of the period's masterpieces, from the 'officially comic' t...
The course will have as its primary focus the detailed study of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, including some study of his poetic theory. The set text includes, in addition to all his poetry, a generous selection of Hopkins’s prose, from letter...
This course will study both the theory and the practice of rhetoric as a distinct mode of communication, from its classical origins to the contemporary scene. Its overriding purpose is to equip students to critique contemporary examples from the publ...
Research Project
ENGL489
In this course you will pursue an independent research project under supervision. You will develop specialised knowledge of your topic as well as a critical awareness of its importance within the discipline. There are different options for the parame...
Thesis
ENGL591
MA thesis in English.
English for PhD
ENGL690
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