Lecture List 2013-14
Lectures take place at 5 pm on Mondays, IMC.002
Term 1
30 Sept. 2013. Introduction: Modernity, Manifestoes and the Module (Nick Lawrence)
7 Oct. 2013. Goethe, Faust Part I (James Hodkinson)
14 Oct. Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, African (Tina Lupton)
21 Oct. Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”; Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”; Pushkin, “The Bronze Horseman” (Emma Mason)
28 Oct. Frankenstein (Joe Jackson)
11 Nov. Baudelaire, from “The Painter of Modern Life”; “The Swan” from Fleurs du Mal; “The Eyes of the Poor,” “Lost Halo,” “Bash the Poor!” from Spleen de Paris; Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat” (Nick Lawrence)
18 Nov. Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Stephen Purcell)
Note: From this date, we will be providing lecture capture through a new software platform adopted by the university, Echo360. Click on the hyperlinked lectures listed to view and hear the lecture.
25 Nov. Soseki, Kokoro (Michael Gardiner)
2 Dec. Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Pablo Mukherjee)
13 Jan. Kafka, Metamorphosis (Paulo de Medeiros)
20 Jan. Apollinaire, “Zone”; Eliot, “The Waste Land” (Dan Katz/Nick Lawrence)
27 Jan. Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Madhumita Lahiri)
3 Feb. Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (Christian Smith)
17 Feb. Beckett, Endgame (Dan Katz)
24 Feb. Nabokov, Lolita (Eileen John)
10 Mar. Ngugi, A Grain of Wheat (Sorcha Gunne)
Term 3
12 May. Roundtable discussion of China Miéville, The City and the City (MWL tutors)