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English Language & Literature

Students will be encouraged to collect and analyse their own data for their assignments.

ENG 273 Children’s Literature
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims at introducing students to both the historical development and the
thematic context of children’s literature. A wide range of materials of children’s literature,
ranging from pre-school to adolescent texts, are selected for the course. Students will study
fairy tales, religious tracts of the nineteenth century, fantasy writings, picture books and other
sub-genres of children’s literature. Through examining the selected works, students will acquire
an understanding of “childhood”, identities crisis, double audience, and other critical issues
related to the writings for young readers. Besides, they will also look into the debate between
education and entertainment purposes, gender stereotypes, multicultural writings, the use of
visual language, and adaptations of children’s texts.

ENG 274 Modernist Fiction
1 Term, 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the themes and forms of modernist fiction within their
cultural and historical milieus. Students first explore the artistic and intellectual movements and
cultural positions of the period (1900-1945). Primarily, we take up the core epistemological
question in Modernism (the so-called “crisis of representation”), and then the ideological and
psychological significance of modernist experimentations, their narratology, the issue of gender
in modernist writing, and the interplay between politics, form and style in our selected texts.
Students survey the works of major modernist writers, and in the latter part of the course, move
towards the limits of the modernist canon which may have heralded the appearance of post-
modernist discourse.

ENG 283 Literature and Film
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with the multiple relationships between
literature and film through in-depth analyses of major literary and cinematic works. It aims to
explicate essential differences as well as similarities among literary genres such as novel,
drama/theatre, and poetry, etc. and their translation onto the screen. Theories of print and
media culture respectively will be brought forth, in order for students to develop a firm grasp of
their (historically) different modes of operation, regimes of representation, as well as their
aesthetic conjunction under certain circumstances. Issues of adaptation will be highlighted in
the juxtaposition of literary ‘original’ with cinematic counterpart.

ENG 284 Modern Drama
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with modern drama and its characteristics.
The course will examine a few representative plays from the modern period and survey the
major aesthetic and cultural movements of the twentieth century.

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