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World Art and Literature AS1 Resubmission Question Paper 2023

World Art and Literature AS1 RESUBMISSION - Deadline 14th August 2023 at 23.59

World Art and Literature AS2 Resubmission Question Paper 2023

World Art and Literature AS2 RESUBMISSION - Deadline 14th August 2023 at 23.59

ASSIGNMENTS

AS1

Harvard referencing system

cover sheet

referencing guide

AS1 - Assignment Questions and Brief

AS1 - Reading List

Reflective writing WAL term 1

AS2 Assignment Two - World Art Essay Questions

AS2

Mitigating Circumstances

Course Information

Term One - Literature: Course Overview

Term Two -World Art: Syllabus

Week 1 Term 1: Introduction to World Literature

Introductory Lecture - Slides

Reading 1: David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature

Reading 2: Albert Guerard: from 'What is World Literature'

Reading 3: from Mesthrie and Bhatt: World Englishes

Seminar/Tutorial Worksheet

Week 1 Writing worksheet

Jeshmeen's Week 1 lecture review

Week 2 Term 1: Romanticism

Romanticism -Slides: note the lecture slides are followed by seminar slides (to help you prepare for the support classes and the seminar)

Readings: Wordsworth, Whitman and de Crevecoeur

The Walt Whitman Archive

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855)

The Romantic Period

Week 3 Term 1: Realism

Primary Reading I: Extracts from Jane Austen

Primary Reading II: Kate Chopin, 'The Story of an Hour' (1894)

"The Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin ( Word version)

Secondary Reading: 'Literary Realism'

Secondary Reading: 'On Pride and Prejudice' - Dorothy Van Ghent

Realism lecture slides

Critical Theory: Roland Barthes, 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives' in BARTHES, R., &amp; HEATH, S. (1977). Image, music, text. New York, Hill and Wang.

Week 4: Modernism I: Modernism and Empire

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Online Version)

The Belgian Congo - Video

Lecture 4: Modernism and Empire - Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

'The Trouble With Heart of Darkness'

Chinua Achebe: 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness'

Week 5 Modernism II: The Metropolis

Lecture 5 - Modernism II The Metropolis: T.S. Eliot

Primary Reading: T.S. Eliot: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1915)

Georg Simmel: 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' (1903)

Seamus Perry: 'A Close Reading of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

Randall Stevenson 'Broken mirrors: the First World War and modernist literature'

Roz Kaveney - 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: fragmentation, interruption, fog'

Mullin, Katherine. 'Cities in Modernist Literature'. 2016, British Library.

READING WEEK - TERM 1

Week 6 Term 1 Fairytales

Lecture 6: Fairytales

Fairytales - Primary Readings

Vladimir Propp - Narrative Theory (Oxford Reference)

Umberto Eco: 'Narrative structures in Fleming' in The Role of the Reader (1965)

Vaz de Silva, F. 'Perrault and the Evolution of Little Red Riding Hood'

Bruno Bettelheim: 'Little Red Riding Hood' in The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Week 7 Term 1 Case Study: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Achebe lecture video recording

Case Study: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart - Text Analysis

Group Task - Oral Culture and Folktales in Things Fall Apart

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958. Available from SOAS Library.

Whittaker, David. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: 1958 - 2008. Brill 2011 (Ebook, available at SOAS Library)

Charles H. Rowell: 'An Interview with Chinua Achebe (1990)

Week 8 Term 1 Case Study: Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Lecture: Angela Carter 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories' Part 1

Lectture; Angela Carter 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories' Part 2

Case Study: Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Complete Text)

Angela Carter - 'The Company of Wolves'

Angela Carter - 'Wolf Alice'

Critical Theory: Roland Barthes, 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives' in BARTHES, R., & HEATH, S. (1977). Image, music, text. New York, Hill and Wang.

Race and Representation: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye - Parts I & II