(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

46ENGL2004.English syntax (6 credits)This course introduces the structure of English by investigating approaches to grammar, models ofgrammatical analysis, and the grammar of contemporary English. It is interested in the relationshipbetween morphology and syntax, and grammar and linguistics.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2007.Literary linguistics (6 credits)This course uses linguistic techniques to analyse literary texts by examining both the devices thatliterary authors employ and the literary effects they create in different styles and genres. It employsmethods of structural linguistic analysis (looking at the syntax and phonology of texts) as well associo-historical and pragmatic methods.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2010.English novel I (6 credits)This course offers a study of narrative fiction, and of its development in the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2011.English novel II (6 credits)This course offers a study of narrative fiction, and of its development in the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2012.Contemporary literary theory (6 Credits)In the late 20th century, developments in critical thought had a major impact on literature andcriticism. Relations between literary production and language, politics and history were radically reexaminedby and through what has become known as ‘theory’. As a body of thought, theory includessuch diverse and conflicting schools and movements as Marxism, poststructuralism, feminism andgender theory, new historicism, postcolonialism and postmodernism. As well as exploring theinstitution of theory in the academy, students will put theory into practice in readings of selectedliterary texts.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2022.Women, feminism and writing I (6 credits)This course will explore questions of identity and difference as expressed in women’s writing. It willprovide a general introduction to feminist literary theory and the on-going range of feministinterventions in literary and cultural studies.Assessment: 100% coursework.