Student work examples – 3

Bonjour Tristesse as told in Villanelle form: By Mary Franklin In the year in question I was seventeen and perfectly happy. I was still like the others and it was summertime.The others were my father, and Elsa, his mistress, and his dear friend Anne.He was...

Student work examples – 2

By Tim MacGabhann  The Dead by James Joyce (in Dubliners, London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000) 1: pp.188-90, 197, 202: in the style of John Ashbery The draught then a pocket of cool in salon heat: remembrance in motion,
You’d like to say to her, and talk of how...

Student work examples – 1

By Ciara Aaron Heart of Darkness extract ‘Going up that river was like travelling to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm,...

Thomas Karshan. Teaching through Imitation, Parody, and Play

My purpose in the below is, at least initially, to offer, for all of those who are interested in teaching through imitation, a view of some of the main historical and theoretical issues and questions, as I see them, and to draw together in a single place some of the recent scholarship and thought on the topic. I will do so via an account of my own experience of teaching literature through imitation and parody in my MA module at UEA, Ludic Literature.

MA Module on Ludic Literature

Dostoevsky’s The Double (1846) explores the gulf that can exist between how a person sees themselves and how others see them – between self-perception and reality – and how exhausting it can be maintaining an image for society.