ARTS1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moodle
5 Jun 2018
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1. 1/03/18 Introduction
Text: The Boat, Nam Le, published: 2008
Aim:
• Study of literary form and English literature through a wide range of texts
• Become introduced to specialised vocabulary of literary and textual analysis
Essay writing
• Develop own writing style and construction of essays, sentences, and
arguments in order to express analysis (concentration on essay form)
• Formulaic nature of school essays are not like uni essays
• TIP: find peer reviewed articles under subject - English (moodle? Check
powerpoint from moodle)
• REMEMBER!!! When writing, use only AUTHOR and READER, not
composer and responder
University provides concentrated focus on literary texts (with no related texts)
• Uses specific technical language
• Deals with textual integrity/value
• Not simplistically canonical
• Focuses on texts as entities
Literary texts
• Dense, complex, allow for different theories / perspectives etc to form varied
interpretations
LITERARY CANON - refers to a body of books, narratives and other texts considered
to be the most important and influential of a particular time period or place.
GENRE - classificatory tool, a way of sorting and organising kinds of texts and other
cultural objects.
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Document Summary
Aim: study of literary form and english literature through a wide range of texts, become introduced to specialised vocabulary of literary and textual analysis. When writing, use only author and reader, not composer and responder. University provides concentrated focus on literary texts (with no related texts: uses specific technical language, deals with textual integrity/value, not simplistically canonical, focuses on texts as entities. Literary texts: dense, complex, allow for different theories / perspectives etc to form varied interpretations. Literary canon - refers to a body of books, narratives and other texts considered to be the most important and influential of a particular time period or place.
