Set books
Click here for the seminar programme and reading list. The books you will need to obtain are:
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Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian
Romances, trans. Kibler and Caroll
(Penguin)
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David Lodge, Small World: An Academic
Romance (Penguin/ Vintage)
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Jane Austen, Emma (any
edition)
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Shakespeare, The Tempest (any edition,
e.g. in The Norton Shakespeare)
All the other set texts,
including the theory texts (mostly taken from the Modern Genre Theory
anthology, ed. David Duff) will be available as e-texts via the module website.
Preparation
The module starts with
medieval romance and is organised chronologically. A good way to prepare would
be to read Marie de France’s Guigemar and/or Chrétien’s Perceval: or The Story of
the Grail (in Arthurian Romances). You could also make a
start on one or both of the longer novels we will be studying in later weeks: Jane
Austen’s Emma and David Lodge’s Small World.
The theory text we will
study first is Northrop Frye’s ‘The Mythos of Summer: Romance’, which can be found in
the e-text of Modern Genre Theory in QM Library. The introduction to the
anthology gives an overview of other theories we’ll study.