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British Literature
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Classical Literature
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Epic Fantasy
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Fantasy
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Gothic Literature
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JRR Tolkien
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Literacy
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Magic
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Metaphysics
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Oct Showcase 2023
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Owen Barfield
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Poetry
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Romanticism
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The Inklings
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The Middle Ages
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Time Travel
A Module in Tolkien and the Romantics
• Non-Sequential Series
Discussion-based
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Low intensity
The imagination and dreams are essential parts of J.R.R. Tolkien's world building which he explored across many stories from 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'On Fairy-stories' to 'The Notion Club Papers'. The same can be said of the Romantics who saw an important connection between the two. In works such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', Lord Byron's 'The Dream' and 'Darkness', and Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', the imaginary and dream-like meet with awe-inspiring, melancholy or blood-chilling results.
Class Outline:
Class Outline:
- Class 1: The Realms of (Childhood) Faery (60m)
- Class 2: Faery’s Enchantment (60m)
- Class 3: The Terror of the Night (60m)
- Class 4: The Past is an Imagined Dreamworld (90m)
- Class 5: Visions of the Apocalypse (60m)
- Class 6: Senses and Sensation (60m)
- Class 7: Glimpses, mere Fragments (90m)
Required Texts
There is no pre-reading required for this module and no secondary material required. All extracts from texts used throughout this Tolkien and the Romantics' module will appear on the presentations and class workbooks.
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