Cardiff University (CF)

Notes covering: - Graham Swift's Waterland - The ideas of progress and how war interacts with this - Pre and post enlightenment ideas of progress -Structure of the narrative of Waterland

PowerPoint presentation covering: - Sebald's life and career - Sebald and war - Austerlitz - Narrative style - War, the Holocaust and ideas of progress

Covers the following: - race relations and relations between men and women - domestic and imperial spaces - shared frustrations of race and feminism - gender and race hierarchies - Jane Eyre - Comparisons of Shirley and Villette to people of non-white races - Class, race and gender oppression

Summary of key Quotes from Lady Audley's Secret

Notes covering: - Origins of Magical Realism - Alternative realities of magical realism - Combination of reality and fantasy - Locations and dislocations - El boom and the new novel - Post colonial Latin America - Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Summary of Jane Eyre including: - Feminism and challenging patriarchy - Victorian values - Unrepresentative experiences of Jane - middle class - Colonialism - Indian colonialism

Presentation covers: - McEwan's life and early career - McEwan and War - Atonement - Legacy of WWI and impending WWII - McEwan and Auden, - Realism and the 'real' - Trauma as a missed encounter with the real - Narrative technique and the evocation of trauma

Presentation covering the following: - Swift's Life and early career - Importance of war in Swift's fiction, especially WWI - Waterland - WWI and shell shock - Role of WWII - war and philosophies of progress - threat of nuclear war - style and narrative structure

Notes looking at the way in which magical realist texts are feminist in their approach. Explores the core themes of: - The use of spirits, ghosts and haunted spaces - Story telling as survival - Gender and the decolonisation of language

Summary of the core themes of Said's Culture and Imperialism work