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• Disrupting Norms: The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other
• Petrarchan Lovers in Renaissance Romance: Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
• 10:04 by Ben Lerner
• Edmund Burke’s ‘Speech on Fox’s East India Bill’
• What, according to early medieval authors, constitutes monstrosity?
• How does Austen present dislikeable women in Mansfield Park and Emma and to what extent do these characters conform to/ challenge contemporary views as to the role of women in society?
• QUANTIFYING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: A Case Study of U.S. Civil War Songs
• The portrayal of class and social mobility in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
• Hybridity, Romanticism, Gender: Subversion in Toru Dutt’s Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
• Bearing in mind the relation between the text and its contemporary contexts, in what respects do the intersecting narratives of NW extend our understanding of identity?
• The Victorian Reception of Thomas Hardy’s 1895 Novel Jude the Obscure
• Professional Live Performance Analysis: Scottish Ballet’s Coppélia
• Close reading of E.M Forster’s ‘Maurice’ (1971)
• ‘Roses flowering; and the garden full of lust’: Floral Imagery and Sapphic Desire in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
• ‘Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence’ (Louis Althusser). Discuss how one or more of the texts we have read performs ideological work of the kind Althusser identifies.
• The Riddles of Knowledge
• How does Elizabeth Cary treat love in The Tragedy of Mariam?
• Republican Sublimity in John Milton’s ‘Second Defence of the English People’
• An Examination into the Aesthetic Potential of Disability Theatre using Kaite O’Reilly’s peeling
• With reference to one Victorian novel on the module, discuss the ways in which the author of the novel uses objects to convey character and the ways in which characters within the novel use objects to construct public personae and assert status and belonging. Discuss as well how reliable and successful these material constructions of identity are presented as being.
• Write a magazine review in a suitable 19th century mode (think Blackwood’s Magazine) of Waverley, the Confessions or Kidnapped, and then a scholarly essay that either disagrees with or substantiates the content of that review.
• ‘If you could cast an audience, Port Talbot is the place to cast your audience’ Lucy Davies, Producer of The Passion. Between performance and spectating: identifying the potential for narrative construction with audience participation in Michael Sheen’s The Passion (April 2011).
• ‘I could be any thing or every thing’: Performance and the Boundaries of Social Propriety in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice
• Discuss the relationship between the individual and the mass in Ralph’s Ellison’s Invisible Man
• ‘Enhachyde with perle’: Pearl Imagery in Tudor Culture and Poetry
• Revolutionary representations: The imaginative possibilities of solitude in Wordsworth’s poetry and Godwin’s “Caleb Williams”
• The Significance of History and Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)
• Reproducing New Voices: An Experimentation within Blake and Moreton’s Poetry
• Repression in ‘Mrs Dalloway’
• ‘Spots of time’: Representations and significance of childhood in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and William Wordsworth’s The Two-Part Prelude
• Write an essay examining the impact of science and the supernatural on the racial Other in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood?
• Close Reading From Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861), Ch. 40
• ‘Heaven and earth!/ Must I remember?’: Memory and Melancholia in Hamlet