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ENGL1001 – Literature: Medieval to Modern

2021 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde

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General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Geoffrey Payne
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description
English literature is foundational to modern life, providing everyday cultural references and a storehouse of stories that entertain us and enrich our communication and interaction with each other. This entry unit is informed by the questions: What is literature for? Why is it necessary? Why is it useful? Running through our program is the idea that literature helps us conceive of what it means to be human, and to apprehend the lived experience of other humans. This unit surveys English literature from its medieval beginnings, through the Shakespearean Renaissance, to the late nineteenth century, when the Modernist movement began to supplant the Decadence of the late Victorian era, and children's literature began to proliferate, contributing to our modern idea of what it means to be a child. Students will read a wide variety of literature and will be introduced to a range of concepts and tools for studying these texts. Along with a chronological knowledge of literary movements, this unit develops skills at university level in critical reading, textual analysis and writing about literary texts. Short literary works and weekly critical studies provide focal points for developing detailed and informed ways of interpreting different kinds of narratives. This unit will also provide students with an introduction to further studies in English and creative writing at Macquarie.

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
  • ULO2: Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the medieval to the modern period.
  • ULO3: Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.
  • ULO4: Engage in informed critical discussion on unit content with peers and teachers, entertain others' points of view, and to argue a critical position.

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Quiz 10% No Week 3
Textual Analysis Task 30% No 01/04/2021
Essay 40% No 06/06/2021
Participatory task 20% No Weekly ongoing

Quiz

Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours
Due: Week 3
Weighting: 10%

Students will complete one online quiz in Week 3, comprising 10 multiple choice questions. They will be timed at 10 minutes in duration.


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
  • Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the medieval to the modern period.
  • Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.

Textual Analysis Task

Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: 01/04/2021
Weighting: 30%

750 word textual analysis task based on a set topic


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
  • Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the medieval to the modern period.
  • Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.

Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 37 hours
Due: 06/06/2021
Weighting: 40%

1500 research essay related to a set topic


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
  • Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the medieval to the modern period.
  • Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.

Participatory task

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 36 hours
Due: Weekly ongoing
Weighting: 20%

Participatory tasks to be completed in class throughout semester


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
  • Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the medieval to the modern period.
  • Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.
  • Engage in informed critical discussion on unit content with peers and teachers, entertain others' points of view, and to argue a critical position.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Weekly lectures delivered via iLearn. Tutorials and Online forums begin in week one. You must enrol in ONE tutorial or online-forum class for this unit. Digitised readings via Leganto (follow the link in iLearn).

Students will need to purchase the following texts:

  1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. All students are urged to acquire/use the recommended text, published by Boradview, ed. James Winny (Toronto: Broadview, 1995), which contains useful additional information.
  2. William Shakespeare, Macbeth. All students are urged to acquire/use the recommended text, the Norton Critical Edition, ed. Robert S. Miola, 2nd ed. (New York and London: Norton, 2014), which contains useful additional information.
  3. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina. All students are urged to acquire/use the recommend text, the Broadview edition (Toronto: Broadview, 2004), which contains useful additional information
  4. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey. Students may use any edition of this widely available text.
  5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskerville. Students mqy use any edition of this widely available text.

The following text is recommended to buy:

  1. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015).

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