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English Language & Literature

emphasised throughout the process of producing written work.

ENG 270 Discourse Analysis
1 Term; 3 Credits
Discourse analysis (DA) is concerned with the examination of language in use. It
encompasses a diversity of approaches with which to describe and explain the structure and
function of texts, and how they communicate meaning in different social and situational
contexts. This course aims to introduce students to some of the fundamental concepts and
methods for describing and analysing written, spoken and visual discourse. Authentic
examples of texts will be drawn from a variety of genres for illustration (e.g. conversations,
speeches, academic writing, newspaper articles, internet communication, advertisements).
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,

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