Literary Rebels

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Literary history is the story of rebellion against literary conventions, social injustices, and indeed what has counted from one age to another as literature. This unit proposes to introduce students to this fundamental feature of literary history by identifying and analysing the roles texts have in registering and challenging multiple ideas of rebellion. In this unit, students will engage with an exciting range of provocative texts from various historical periods, genres and social and philosophical contexts to come to a deeper understanding of how texts might represent and question political, social and aesthetic authority, and contribute to changing how we know the world, ourselves and others.