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

49ENGL2069.Form and meaning (6 credits)An investigation into the relationship between English structure and meaning (semantics andpragmatics), considering how meanings are encoded and inferred.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2074.Postcolonial readings (6 credits)This course examines important works of literature in English from perspectives opened up by recentdebates on ‘nation’, ‘narration’, and ‘hybridity’.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2075.The idea of China (6 credits)This course examines English representations and interpretations of China in a selection of writingsfrom the 18th century to the early 20th century.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2076.Romanticism (6 credits)The course studies the Romantic era, and traces its history through a selection of its main texts.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2078.The novel today (6 credits)This course provides the opportunity to study selected novels in English which are representative ofcurrent trends in literature. Three or four novels will be studied and these will be selected fromcritically acclaimed novels such as those appearing on the Man Booker short list. American fictionand world literature might also be included.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2079.Shakespeare (6 credits)This course will explore some of the themes and form of Shakespeare’s drama, and will consider howhis work has been interpreted in modern times.Assessment: 100% coursework.ENGL2080.Women, feminism and writing II (6 credits)This course will explore the often difficult relationship between women and what has beentraditionally known as the ‘feminine sphere’. Women have commonly been associated with thefeminine sphere of love, marriage and family and this course will consider how modernity andfeminism have challenged and disrupted this assumption.Assessment: 100% coursework.