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National Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome (tutorial) [Autumn]
Beginning with The Iliad, we discuss how far Greeks and
Trojans represent different national styles and how gender issues are interrelated
with racial. Looking at Greek tragedy, and especially Aeschylus' Persians,
we discuss the concept of 'Orientalism' and how far it is constructed and challenged
within the play. Herodotus' depiction of the Greek triumph over the Persian
invader in 490 and 480 is also analysed. Greek identity is then contrasted with
Roman through a study of Virgil's Aeneid which questions how much the
Roman culture of military success cost its victims. The last few weeks will
be devoted to a detailed study of one of the texts covered, or an extension
of the approach to one of a number of other works: for instance, other Greek
tragedies; or the treatment of other 'barbarian' races such as the Germans or
British in Tacitus; or Plutarch's Antony, and its treatment of Cleopatra
and Egypt. For general information on ASE's Oxford-style tutorials, please
visit The Tutorial Programme.
Subject areas: Classical Studies and History
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Classical Theatre: Greek and English Tragedy
[Autumn]
The course begins with Homer, in whom so many of the roots of Greek tragedy are to be found. Are Hector and Achilles 'tragic' characters in any sense? Does his poem The Iliad glorify war, or accentuate its human cost, or both? Then, several weeks will be spent on selected Greek tragedies such as Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King. The similarities with English tragedy, and also the differences, will be an important focus. Is there such a thing as a Greek 'tragic hero', and if so how is he or she different from the English counterparts? (How much difference does the Greek preoccupation with houses, families, and cities make to the treatment of individuals?). The course moves toward a consideration of specific English tragedies, those for example, of Kyd, Shakespeare and Webster, to draw some conclusions about the nature of tragedy and the way English tragedy has grown out of a classical tradition.
Subject areas: Classical Sutdies, Literature,
English and Theatre
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The Epic [Spring]
Only the greatest literary achievements are capable of chronicling
the greatest achievements of mankind. Homer's accounts of the Trojan War in
The Iliad, and the wanderings of Odysseus in The Odyssey are the
foundations of European literature. Virgil attempts to mirror these masterpieces
of Greek poetry with an epic legitimation of the power and grandeur of Rome:
The Aeneid. Finally, in Paradise Lost, John Milton draws on the
tradition of the Greek and Roman genre to produce a Christian epic which, as
he saw it, would surpass both, by the virtue of the superiority of the subject
matter - The Fall of Man! This course aims to introduce the student to these
masterpieces (Homer and Virgil in translation) and to cover the major themes
of each epic in some depth. It also aims to encourage students to make connections
between them and to set them in the context of modern views of poetic composition.
Subject areas: Classics, Literature and English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Myths and Legends of Britain and Ireland [Autumn]
Britain and Ireland have a rich heritage of myths and legend that merit comparison with the better-known Greek and Norse cycles. This course will begin by analysing early Celtic myths and legends, exemplified by the Irish epic The Táin and the Welsh Mabinogion. We will examine the cultural practices and values that the texts reflect, and consider the relationship between myth and history in these tales of romance, spells, shape-shifting, and battle. We will read the earliest tales of King Arthur, along with adaptations ranging from the medieval period to the nineteenth century, and compare this aristocratic figure with Robin Hood, a hero of the people. We will explore legends of fairies, giants, dragons, and boggarts, myth revisions by modern poets such as Yeats and Eliot, and examples of contemporary mythmaking. There is a study trip to Cadbury Castle and Glastonbury, reputed sites of Camelot and Avalon.
Subject areas: Medieval Studies and English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Women in Medieval Europe (tutorial) [Spring]
This tutorial explores the representation and condition of women in literary and historical sources, beginning with the idea of 'woman' inherited from classical and Judeo-Christian thinking, and progressing to representations of women in western Europe between 500 and 1500. Students will have the opportunity to explore in detail the roles played by religion, learning and artistic production in the lives of women, and will be given scope to write on any aspect of women's achievements as artists, thinkers, and writers in the Middle Ages. For general information on ASE's Oxford-style tutorials, please visit The Tutorial Programme.
Subject areas: Medieval Studies, History, English and Women's
Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Medieval Literature: Romance to Realism [Autumn & Spring]
Medieval Romance developed as a vehicle for the themes of chivalry
and courtly love, the pre-occupations of the medieval European aristocracy.
The Romance texts we look at, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
and selections from Malory, all concern themselves with Arthurian material;
we will be placing the Romance ideals they promote in a social and historical
context. In the second half of the course we turn to some Canterbury Tales
to see how Chaucer was able to adapt popular realistic narrative to explore
human motives in a profounder way than had been seen before. The Tales
examine issues which were troubling the 'calamitous' fourteenth century, pose
perennial questions about the human experience, and interrogate the nature of
literature itself. The study trip visits Glastonbury and Wells Cathedral.
Subject areas: Medieval Studies and English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Mythologizing Shakespeare [Autumn & Spring]
Through study of five plays – The Tempest, The Taming of
the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Hamlet (*) – this course
aims to provide an introduction to the study of Shakespeare as the great and
enduring myth-maker. Each play will be examined in its social, literary and
political context and be discussed from the point of view of the richness and
complexity of its language, its characterization and dramatic quality. The state
of each text will be considered, as well as the use Shakespeare made of his
sources.
The course will include a field trip to see a production of a Shakespeare play
by one of England’s premier acting companies, and give students the opportunity
to study material in the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive in Stratford. A backstage
tour of the RSC’s theatre in Stratford will also feature on the course.
(*) texts may vary from year to year.
Subject areas: English and Theatre
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Shakespeare in Performance [Autumn & Spring]
In the late twentieth century, a startling discovery was made
in the ivory towers of Shakespeare scholarship: Shakespeare wrote his plays
to be performed in public playhouses, not to be read and discussed in colleges
and schools!
This course takes a performance-focused approach: the plays for study will be
decided by what is actually available to see at the Royal Shakespeare Theatres
in Stratford, the Royal National Theatre in London, and theatres in the vicinity
of Bath, so that students can see the set plays in performance. Only four plays
will be studied so students will have time to learn about the plays’ critical
reception and performance history as well as study them as literary texts.
The course is appropriate for those studying literature, theatre studies or
social history and, while it presupposes no previous experience of drama, participants
must have a genuine interest in theatre.
Subject areas: Theatre and English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Shakespeare on Screen [Autumn]
Shakespeare, that great icon of high culture, has been frequently
adopted into popular culture and there is now a rich history of Shakespeare
on screen. This course will focus on some landmark productions based on Shakespeare’s
work, including Olivier’s Hamlet and Polanski’s Macbeth. Students
will also study the work of particular film directors (for example Welles, Zeffirelli,
Kozintsev and Branagh), and trace the screen history of specific plays from
the earliest offerings of silent cinema to the most recent box office hits or
art-house movies.
Discussion will centre on screen adaptations of five selected texts, to discover
how the film medium affects realisation of the original play, and to attempt
an answer to the question: ‘Why film plays which were originally intended
for live stage performance?
Subject areas: Film, English and Theatre
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
In the Courts of Princes: Politics and Élite Culture
in Renaissance England [Autumn]
The great princes of sixteenth-century Europe were allied by
blood and a common cultural inheritance but divided by religious belief and
nascent nationalism. This course charts the connections between some of the
great Renaissance courts of Europe by reference to the cultural artefacts they
produced: sonnets, plays and court masques, royal propagandist portraits, and
houses and palaces for royalty and nobility. Crucial to this production were
princely patronage, confessional allegiance and artistic innovation.
The focus will be on the courts of Henry VIII (1509-47), Elizabeth I (1558-1603),
and James I (1603-25), but the influence of other princely courts of Europe
will also be considered. Texts studied may include sixteenth-century books on
the philosophy of politics and education, poems, court masques, plays by Shakespeare
and Ben Jonson, portraits by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver, letters and speeches.
The course includes a field trip to Hampton Court, one of Henry VIII's palaces.
Subject areas: English.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Jane Austen [Autumn & Spring]
From Clueless and Bridget Jones to Becoming Jane, Jane Austen
continues to exert a powerful influence on popular culture. This course will
explore how Austen's acute social observations of the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries live on into the twenty-first. It is structured as a chronological
survey of all six major novels, from the youthful optimism of Northanger Abbey,
through to the cool irony and narrative games of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield
Park, and Emma, and the experimental style of Persuasion. Seminars will combine
close reading - analysis of Austen's narrative technique, her use of parody,
irony, and free indirect discourse, for instance - with thorough historical
and literary contextualisation. We'll also discuss re-interpretations of Austen,
using a wide range of texts and films, both academic and popular - from postcolonial
readings of Mansfield Park to The Jane Austen Guide to Dating and Bollywood.
Walks around the streets of Bath featured in the novels allow a unique insight
into Austen's social dynamics. This is complemented by our visits to her home
at Chawton in Hampshire, and to the Chawton Library research centre, newly established
to promote women's writing of the eighteenth century.
Subject areas: English and Women's Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
British Romanticism: Revolutions in Literature [Autumn]
The clash of liberal and conservative factions in Britain during
the 1790s and beyond marks the Romantic period as one of the most contentious,
fertile, and exciting periods of British literature. This course will examine
the heated controversy over the aims and results of the French Revolution in
British literature, concentrating on the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley - and asking how their work conforms to, or questions,
conventional ideology. Attention will remain focused, however, on the 'literary'
ideas of nature, imagination, the poet, and tradition - particularly on our
trip to the Quantock Hills in Exmoor, home to Wordsworth and Coleridge.
At a time when the novel was exploding in popularity and the playhouse was a
political battlefield between pro- and anti-war partisans from all strata of
society, an inclusive approach is essential to understanding British Romanticism.
The course thus sets out to provide a holistic view of the period by including
novels and plays alongside the poetry.
Subject areas: English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists: the Gothic and the Realistic
[Spring]
The nineteenth century was the great age of novel writing in
English, and some of the best novelists of the period were women. This course
begins by examining how women writers made use of the supernatural, the fantastic,
and other aspects of the Gothic novel to address the nature of human identities
and relationships. It then explores a selection of realistic works reflecting
the domestic and social contexts of women’s lives. Texts to be studied
may include: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Emily Brontë, Wuthering
Heights; Margaret Oliphant, ‘The Library Window’; Elizabeth
Gaskell, Cousin Phillis; Jane Austen, Mansfield Park; and George
Eliot, Middlemarch.
The two-day study trip in Yorkshire includes extended walks on the moors and
a visit to Haworth Parsonage, the home of the Brontë family.
Subject areas: English and Women's Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Ghosts and Goths: Victorian Tales of the Supernatural [Autumn & Spring]
This course explores some of the ways in which ghost stories
and horror literature express the fears, thrills and desires of the nineteenth-century
imagination. We shall see how repression and fantasy are intertwined in a genre
which articulates the period’s most profound anxieties, on issues such
as society, sex and empire. The material covered ranges from the mideighteenth-century
Gothic revival sparked by Horace Walpole, through to more psychological explorations
of power and tyranny, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), all the
way to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Other writers to be studied include
Matthew Lewis, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis
Stevenson. In each case we shall aim to set the text in its cultural context
whilst at the same time paying close attention to the rhetorical devices by
which it engenders fear and anxiety in the reader.
The study trip explores what is left of London’s seamier underside from
the late nineteenth century and includes a recreation of the trail of terror
wreaked on the East End of London by Jack the Ripper.
Subject areas: English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Irish Literature- 1800-2000
[Autumn & Spring]
This course is an introduction to the power, variety and continuing
importance of modern Irish writing. Students will study the relationship between
art and politics, as well as explore the following themes: history, memory,
mythology, resistance, cultural and linguistic identity, ‘terrorism’,
and even tourism.
Beginning with the protean presence of WB Yeats, we will
go on to consider the lyrical comedies of JM Synge, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett’s
formal innovations and experiments with language, Elizabeth Bowen's languid
study of occupation, The Last September, and the airy, committed poetry
of Patrick Kavanagh. In the final classes, we will look at the very different
work of Northern Irish Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney, and the exciting emergence
of contemporary fiction writers in Ireland.
The course includes an optional study trip to Dublin - an opportunity to see
the city that has inspired such a rich array of writing. While ASE
subsidizes this trip, students will be asked to contribute to their travel and
accommodation expenses.
Subject areas: English and Cultural Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Writing and the Body [Autumn]
What can we make of the differences in the ways men and women
depict the body? Why is fear such a bodily experience in Gothic literature?
Why is the body and fashionable dress so minutely described in realist and naturalistic
fiction?
This course addresses recent developments in the study of the body and seeks
to link them to the ways the body is represented in literature and on screen,
from the nineteenth century to the present day. We will look at the role that
the human body, and all that is associated with it, plays in narrative and poetic
practice. Using the theories and ideas of Foucault and Judith Butler, we will
examine texts by Horace Walpole, WM Thackeray, EM Forster, Jeanette Winterson,
Chuck Palahniuk, and Brett Easton Ellis; and the movies Fight Club and
The Pillow Book. There will also be opportunities to consider the representation
of the body in medical writing, in horror films, in television series (including
Sex and the City) and in erotic writing.
Subject areas: English, Women’s and Gender Studies.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
The Writings of Virginia Woolf [Autumn & Spring]
This course follows the chronological pattern of Woolf's development
as a novelist, exploring the ways in which her writing offers innovative designs
with the narrative form and its contribution to the English novel. We will consider
the importance of gender on Woolf's writing and the ways in which her work asks
us to think about what it meant and means to be a woman and a writer, as well
as examine the different issues which are raised in looking at Woolf's legacy
to feminism. The emphasis of this course is textual, although significant events
in Woolf's life, the social and literary contexts of her work, and how she has
been read and critically received during the century will also be considered.
The course will take a study trip which includes visits to Monk's House, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf's Sussex home, and Charleston Farmhouse, the nearby home of
Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister) which provide valuable insights into
their life-styles and preoccupations.
Subject areas: English and Women's Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
The Development of Modern Poetry (tutorial) [Autumn]
This tutorial charts the development of modern poetry, from
its roots in Wordsworth's epic of the individual consciousness, through the
Parnassian silvered speech of Tennyson and the disruptive rejoicing clangour
of Hopkins, to the revolutions, or further developments, of modernism. It moves
beyond to our contemporaries or nearcontemporaries: the hard-to-fool empiricism
of Larkin, the pinings for lost glory of Hill, and Heaney's Wordsworthian resolution
with nature. The tutorials centre on careful close reading of poems, with scope
for students to imitate poets in verse if they so wish.
Subject areas: English.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
The Beast, Big Brother and Beyond: British Fiction since 1945 [Autumn]
In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell envisages a future
in which the State has become all-powerful, the English language is being dismantled
and even sex is outlawed, while William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
depicts a civilisation corrupted by the darkness of the human heart. What gave
rise to these haunting fables and how has British fiction developed in their
aftermath?
The course introduces the student to a rich cross-section of post-war writing,
from Orwell and Golding, through Jean Rhys and Angela Carter to those writers
in the vanguard of present day British fiction. Salman Rushdie’s work provides
a focus for consideration of the complex interrelation between fiction and reality,
while the novels of Julian Barnes and Jeanette Winterson raise pertinent questions
about the value and character of historical inquiry and storytelling which have
special relevance to the literature of the entire period.
The course includes a study trip to the Cheltenham Festival of Literature,
where contemporary British authors give talks on their work. (Speakers in recent
years have included Phillip Pullman, Kate Adie, Alain de Botton, Terry Eagleton
and Marina Warner.)
Subject areas: English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Mementoes: Reading, Writing and Remembering [Spring]
A man wakes in a motel room with only tattoos, some Polaroid
photos and a few scribbled notes to tell him where he is and why he is there.
A South American town is visited by a strange plague: no-one can sleep; people
begin to forget how to do the simplest things. A woman steals a baby from a
supermarket, convinced it is the child she lost long ago. In these episodes,
taken from texts and movies studied on the course, we get a hint of the preoccupation
with remembering and amnesia that characterises much modern writing.
Using theories of memory ancient and modern, we will trace this preoccupation
through novels, films, plays and short stories of the twentieth century, including
Christopher Nolan’s movie Memento, Martin Amis’s Time’s
Arrow, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, Samuel Beckett’s
Krapp’s Last Tape, and selected works by, amongst others, Gabriel
García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Penelope Lively.
The field trip takes us either to Bristol or London to see plays and films connected
with the course.
Subject areas: English and Film
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Worlds Beyond Oxford: Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman [Autumn]
In the 1950’s two Oxford dons drew on their knowledge of
myth, language and literature and rejuvenated fantasy writing in Britain. At
the end of the century, another Oxonian reinterpreted Milton and created an
ambitious philosophical fantasy for the modern age. This course traces the history
of epic fantasy in the twentieth century through the work of JRR Tolkien, CS
Lewis and Philip Pullman. We will examine the status of fantasy fiction in literary
and critical thought, and discover how these three writers have defended and
theorised their use of the fantasy form.
Focusing on Tolkien’s high fantasy, The Lord of the Rings, Lewis’s
creation of Narnia, and Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’
trilogy, we will discuss myth, morality, religion, desire and the representation
of identities. We will also ask what role the city of Oxford plays in these
writers’ imaginations, and how closely they are bound to one another through
friendship, inspiration and antagonism. The course will include visits to some
of the landmarks which find a place in the fiction, including the areas in Birmingham
which inspired the Two Towers and the Shire, and some of the colleges and pubs
in Oxford relevant to these authors’ work.
Subject areas: English.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Images of Youth: Twentieth-Century Children’s and Young
Adult Literature [Spring]
What is children's literature? Who does it speak to, and what
images of childhood (and adulthood) does it portray?
This course explores historical and ideological attitudes toward young people
through a critical and theoretical examination of children's and young adult
literature of the twentieth century. Beginning with Kenneth Grahame's The Wind
in the Willows, students will encounter classic children's fantasy, popular
series fiction and contemporary teenage literature as well as picture books
and poetry. Authors likely to be included on the reading list are CS Lewis,
Enid Blyton, Melvin Burgess and JK Rowling. The course will be shaped by theoretical
debate on 'the child as reader' and students will be asked to consider how far
that figure can be known through children's literature. Topics for discussion
will include the idealization of childhood, didacticism and the adult voice,
populist fiction, young adult/crossover markets and censorship and taboo.
The course includes a study trip to The Museum of Childhood in London.
Subject areas: English.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Late Twentieth-Century British Drama: A Literature and Performance
Course [Autumn and Spring]
This course approaches the study of dramatic texts from two
perspectives: that of the scholarly reader/critic, and that of the actor/director.
Later twentieth-century British theatre is especially rich in the scope and
variety of its texts and the course will reflect that richness. Five plays will
be studied, chosen from the work of the leading playwrights Edward Bond, Howard
Brenton, Caryl Churchill, David Storey, David Hare, Timberlake Wertenbaker,
Willy Russell, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
Students will spend the first half of the semester examining the set plays as
literary texts. In the second half, key scenes will be selected for intensive
rehearsal in preparation for a final workshop performance to ASE staff and students
in the last week of the semester. Students will be responsible for all aspects
of production, apart from direction which will be undertaken by the course tutor.
The course is appropriate for both theatre and literature students and those
who are majoring in other subjects but who have an interest in theatre.
NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF ACTING IS REQUIRED..
Subject areas: Theatre and Film, English.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
From the Modern to the Post-Modern (tutorial) [Autumn &
Spring]
Taking as its starting point some of the canonical works of fiction
of the Modern period, such as James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist
and Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway, this course will examine a range of
twentieth-century novels and short fiction. How have authors from Britain, Europe
and beyond worked to develop, challenge, and generally make mischief with the
efforts of their Modernist predecessors? Considerable scope will be allowed
for students to examine authors and works in which they have, or acquire, a
specific interest. For general information on ASE's Oxford-style tutorials,
please visit The Tutorial Programme.
Subject areas: English
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Post-Colonial Literature (tutorial) [Spring]
This course provides an opportunity to study the finest writers of post-colonial poetry, drama, and fiction in English, considering themes of exile, hybridity, cultural translation, race, exoticism, and other forms of difference. The explosion of superb writing by authors from nations formerly colonized by the British enriches contemporary literature in English with a diversity of perspectives, explored in depth in this course of readings. The writers studied on the course will vary, but likely to be included are Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Vikram Chandra, Anita Desai, VS Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott and Zadie Smith.
Subject areas: English and Women's Studies
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Faragher Jones Publishing (internship) [Autumn & Spring]
Founded in 2002, Faragher Jones is a small, independent publishing
house in central Bath, committed to ethical publishing and with a vested interest
in Fairtrade and Green issues. The company publishes everything from bi-monthly
videogame magazines for CHIPS and ePlay to Fairtrade directories and offbeat
travel guides to the city. Staff members are involved in various parts of the
publishing process, including design, copywriting and advertising. Applicants
should be self-motivated, confident, willing to do independent research and
copywriting, and interested in honing their writing skills in a friendly, passionate
work environment.
Subject areas: English, Creative Writing, Business.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Footprint Publishing (internship) [Autumn & Spring]
Footprint is a small publishing house based in central
Bath. They produce over 100 travel guides to around 150 destinations around
the world aimed at the independent traveller: their competitors are Lonely
Planet, Rough Guide and Let’s Go. Their small team of
full-time staff in Bath deals with everything from the initial conception of
the guides to the finely detailed cartography, though the intern's work and
research is likely to be centred on marketing. Applicants should be highly-motivated,
computer savvy, confident with language, ready to turn their hands to a variety
of office-based tasks, and passionate about publishing and travel.
For general information on ASE Internships, please visit The
Internship Programme.
Subject areas: English, Creative Writing, Business.
Check with your home institution for specific information
on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Impact Publishing (internship) [Autumn & Spring]
Impact Publishing is a small independent publishers specialising
in environmental, lifestyle and organic gardening guides. New titles include
The Toxic Consumer and Green Parenting. As part of a small, but
growing company, the intern will work in a number of different and varied roles
from editorial and production to marketing, sales and administration. If you
are confident, creative and have an interest in the increasingly topical environmental
issues facing the world’s populations then this may be the internship for
you.
For general information on ASE Internships, please visit The
Internship Programme.
Subject areas: English, Creative Writing, Business.
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on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
The Jane Austen Centre (internship) [Autumn & Spring]
Situated
in an elegant Georgian town house in the centre of the City, the Jane Austen
Centre houses a permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane Austen’s
brief but eventful stay in Bath. The Centre offers internships to enthusiastic
and motivated students who, besides being involved in the day to day running
of the centre, will have the opportunity to research the period of Jane Austen’s
time in Bath (1801-6). This internship is likely to be of particular interest
to literature, history or art students, and the successful candidate will be
expected to take the Jane Austen seminar course, if offered, as well as to have
read Austen’s two Bath novels (Persuasion and Northanger Abbey) before
arrival.
For general information on ASE Internships, please visit The
Internship Programme.
Subject areas: English, History, Art and Business
Check with your home institution for specific information
on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
Theatre Royal Bath (internship) [Autumn
& Spring]
The
Egg, the brand new theatre space at the Theatre Royal Bath, is dedicated exclusively
to youth drama. Successful candidates for this internship will get to work with
practitioners who produce young people’s theatre, run workshops and festivals
and work actively with local schools and youth groups to engage children and
young people in the running of the theatre. Applicants should therefore have
particular interest in young people's theatre, and preferably knowledge and
experience of either theatre design, backstage skills, working with young people,
marketing or directing. Opportunities may also be available to work in the administration
wing of the theatre, and to assist with productions in the theatre’s Main
House or Ustinov Studio.
For general information on ASE Internships, please visit The
Internship Programme.
Subject areas: Theatre, English and Business
Check with your home institution for specific information
on fulfilment of major/course requirements.
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