The Iliad most famously replays a crucial episode: the anger of Achilles following insult from the Achaean (Greek) leader Agamemnon and its deadly consequences. The Trojan War is one of the ‘great stories’ of Western culture. NATURE AND VIRTUE: ANCIENT ETHICS (CLAH299) The module aims to engage students with primary historical research through classes in special collections and through digital resources. This module will suit students interested in journalism, magazine material and print cultures, censorship, and historical contexts. Some of the magazines examined may include: The Savoy, To-Day, Blast, The Criterion, Ireland To-Day and Weird Tales. Topics covered will include sexuality, censorship, Modernism, the manifesto, State interference, and literary content, amongst others. It will examine their material and print cultures, history and content in order to gain understanding of the role magazines played in their exploration of, or engagement with, various literary and historical movements. Using the library Special Collections and Brown University’s Modernist Journals Project this module seeks to understand the role that literary magazines play within a culture and the historical background to their production. This module will look at the history, context and content of some of the late 19th and early 20th century’s most important ‘little magazines’. The aim is for you to develop your capacity for asking questions (curiosity) as well as for answering them (research skills). Images, artefacts and contemporary texts in English and other languages are made available to support your research. You start by inventing an 18th-century character and you follow that character through various experiences typical of the period: shopping, reading, travelling, thinking about political issues of the day. Interactive lectures, seminars and fieldwork encourage a hands-on approach to learning. It gives you an insight into the range of materials and methods that are used in research in eighteenth-century studies. The module is taught by tutors from French, German and English Studies, and History, as well as staff from the National Museums Liverpool. This period is often seen as the beginning of the modern world, when the ideas about human nature and society that still shape our own lives came into circulation and when the global entanglements generated by trade and colonisation began to have a lasting impact on everyday life in Europe. This module introduces you to aspects of life in Britain and Europe between about 17. Awards will be made by the department at the end of year one, based on student performance. The scholarship covers the entire UK tuition fee for both years two and three. We are pleased to offer two attainment scholarships per year to undergraduate students from the UK. Take your university experience even further on a paid year-long industry placement, or spend a year abroad at a partner university or our China campus.Įnglish Literature students graduate with sought-after skills that apply to a wide range of careers, including journalism, arts and marketing. Students are taught in small groups for a collaborative and conversational experience. You’ll be taught by a staff including award-winning writers and four BBC ‘New Generation Thinkers’, on a course informed by original academic research. You’ll learn to interpret literature from many perspectives: historical, sociological, political and more, making this course both intellectually challenging and rewarding. You will have the opportunity to study a wide range of literary forms, genres and themes, from the early medieval period to the present day.
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