Deconolisation of literature curriculum

Callistemon21

^It's about a university which has a one year course to study a particular author^

Remind me not to apply for that course.
A whole year on one author - whichever author, Austen, Dickens, Morrison it must become tedious surely?

I suppose a year of Shakespeare could be enjoyable, such variety!

It’s one module - a couple of hours a week contact time, as well as the reading of the texts and the associated research in the students’ own time. That’s in the context of probably nine modules plus a dissertation on the course. I don’t think the degree will have been particularly skewed towards either Austen or Morrison, whichever was chosen. It would be odd if students of literature couldn’t maintain that level of commitment (and I think it is an option anyway).

How does this pass for news? Is nothing happening in Stirling these days?

Milest0ne

I can appreciate Austen in small doses but I could never like the Brontes. I remember having a nightmare when we had to read Jayne Eyre ( did I spell that right?) in English lit.

Have you read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë? Often referred to as the first feminist novel. Interesting narrative style and form.