Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
Course Number:
ENG00021C
Course Description:
This module is a core foundational module, and will help 1st Year English students understand new ‘approaches’ to literary studies as they encounter a range of texts and topics. It specifically addresses the idea of ‘other worlds’ in medieval and early modern literature and culture. The medieval and early modern periods may seem ‘other’ to us on account of their distance in time, and their different worldviews, ideas, and even emotions. But at the same time, medieval and early modern writers themselves imagined ‘other worlds’: heaven and hell; monstrous borderlands and undiscovered countries; strange territories of magic and enchantment. This module will explore both the ‘otherness’ of the medieval and early modern period, and also the ‘other worlds’ imagined in that period. In doing so, it will foreground questions about historical distance and difference, and about the methods that may be most productive or provocative in studying the literature and
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00021C/latest
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