The reader in history
H Love
6 points * 2.5 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ENH1010 or ENH1060/DTS1060 or ENH1111/CLS1010
The premise of this subject is that an education in `English' is about learning to understand a variety of reading practices, and that these can be historically contextualised. The approach will be chronological, moving forward from practices that still have a strong oral component to present-day models of interpretive reading.
Assessment
Exercise (1000 words): 20% * Essay (1500 words): 30% * Examination (2 hours): 40% * Attendance and participation: 10%
Prescribed texts
Bible: The song of songs (any edn)
Calvino I If on a winter's night a traveller
Leonard J (ed.) Seven centuries of poetry in English 2nd edn, OUP
James H The Aspern papers Penguin
Shakespeare The Tempest Penguin
Swift J A tale of a tub and other works World's Classics
Recommended texts
Appleyard J Becoming a reader CUP
Ong W Orality and literacy Routledge