This course will give you a kaleidoscopic picture of colonialism as a dark and self-revealing experience, through the lenses of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, and Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand stories.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
Through Austen's six major works, examine the innovations and groundbreaking experimentalism that she brought to English literature and the development of the novel form. Explore her technical prowess and her astute engagement with key issues of her time.
Have you ever wondered why people study poetry? Have you ever read a poem and thought, 'Is there a way I should be reading this?' Have you ever been intimidated by poetry? If the answer is 'yes' to any of these questions, then this course is for you.
Assessing the disparate, fascinating protagonists of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park to explore her wit, satire, and complex treatment of contemporary ideals of femininity.
This course will focus on works by four of the era's major figures - Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy - identifying how the century's main preoccupations find substance in the work of its greatest writers.
If you have ever been daunted by terms such as 'modernism', 'magic realism' or 'postmodern', this is the course for you.
This course is for anyone who would like to learn to read beneath the surface, pay attention to language and form, and become a critical reader.
Middle English literature is not all prayer and piety and men in armour. Find a rich cultural heritage in Middle English poems, plays and prose.
Many readers enjoy Austen's novels, but what makes them so special and enduring? Learn to analyse Austen's characteristic style and techniques and thus gain an enhanced appreciation of her art.
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature? This course is for anyone who has read or would like to read the work of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.
Literary theory offers powerful tools for understanding how texts work and why they matter. This course introduces key ideas in an accessible way, showing how theory can deepen your appreciation and enjoyment of literature.
Become a more attentive, appreciative and critical reader of literary texts on this weekly class in Oxford, with an emphasis on close critical analysis.