Date:
9 November –Year 12/13
23 November – Year 9/10
Time 1.00–3.00pm
Subject area English Literature
Why do we read English Literature? Why do we need a whole academic discipline devoted to it? What is the point of studying writing and criticism at university? These questions are getting bigger all the time. Disguised as questions about value and funding higher education, you have seen them over and over in newspapers and online. In this session, we’ll take a look at some texts which make answering them especially challenging: bad texts. We’ll read shockingly awful poetry and prose and then strive together to find the profit in it. You will cringe, wince and (hopefully!) enjoy yourself.
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http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/masterclasses
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