講義概要
This course is designed to allow students the chance to combine what they learned in the first year skills classes and apply them to join in discussions and express themselves on topics in literature both in spoken and written language. As part of the class, we will work together and collaborate on a class journal project which each student will contribute to. Class work will be conducted in groups and individually and students will often be required to lead sessions and present their own research.

Assessments are based on a set of options which students choose from in order to gain enough credits to pass the course. Therefore, the emphasis is very much on the students making decisions for themselves and demonstrating their own independence as learners and researchers. |The main works we will examine in the course will be Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, The Beat Generation and Tolkien’s High Fantasy world of Middle-earth. We will explore themes of language use, historical and cultural references and also literary theory and ways of interpreting literature.

使用テキスト
Handouts will be provided by the teacher. You should buy a plastic-folder to hold them all together as you may need to refer back to work covered in previous lessons.

参考書
Sylvia Plath “Daddy” from Ariel| Ted Hughes “The Minotaur” from Birthday Letters|? William S. Burroughs “Ah Pook is Here”| Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: An Introduction | Anne Charters The Portable Beat Reader| JRR Tolkien we will look at a number of stories by Tolkien. Readers would do well to familiarise themselves by at least watching the film version of Lord of the Rings|

著者名／Authors：Sylvia Plath
書名／Title：”Daddy” from Ariel
出版社・出版年／Publisher.Year：Harper Collins. 1999

著者名／Authors：Ted Hughes
書名／Title：”The Minotaur” from Birthday Letters
出版社・出版年／Publisher.Year：Faber and Faber. 1998

著者名／Authors：Anne Charters
書名／Title：The Portable Beat Reader
出版社・出版年／Publisher.Year：Penguin. 1992