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Notes on the translations of the odyssey throughout the ages: Homer to Contemporary. Time line and simillarities and differences highlighted and explored.

When referencing the 'gramma of poetry', Wimsatt means to describe the set of technical tools used to make up a poem - the ways words and phrases are sown together. For example, through personification, metaphor and/or imagery. He notes the importance of being able to recognise these but stresses that "simply a report on appearances"[1]of a poem is not enough to construct a meaningful reading of it. One must establish how these techniques are used as tools to convey the meanings and the mess...

• A world engaged with contemporary politics and events: • A blazing world is a fantasy located in the very recent past which Margret has experienced • The "empress" and the "duchess" are different manifestations of Margret, she writes herself into the text twice. • By traveling to places existing in real life, a direct intrusion of recent history and fantastical history. The duchess shows the empress the damages to the cavendish family irl. She tells readers about recent h...

• 1st testament of an enslaved women by the British colonies • 1st book by a black female publish in the Britain. • Filled with horrific accusations against white people - high status and influential white people • Some people view prince as a symbol of black resistance, important member of the black literary cannon. • BUT others, more concerned with the search with an authentic voice, find it a bit more difficult. Because of the way it was produced, who produced it and what ...

Literary analysis of Zong! and other related works. exploring the effect of trauma, both fresh and generational, on the mind and body.

Gendered language and the constructive higherarchy of words lecture notes and Essay prep comparing Cixous and Freud.

Close reading was one of the ways English Literature was formulised into a subject and made examinable in the 1st half of the 20th century - looking at close reading as an institutional process.

explring marxist and anti-capitalist points of views in literary criticism. Looking at politics and history and its relationship with class, ideology and devisional relationships of labour

Lecture notes on the relationships bewteen the violence of imperialism and colonialism, and the study of literature and culture.

case studies putting the writers in dialogue exploring their relationhip with literature and philosophy. Sterne as a philisophical writer and Marx as a social critic and a literary one.