Testimony - a formal written or spoken statement, evidence or proof of something.
Seminar group - Seminars are for small groups of students studying the same course. They are normally led by a tutor in a seminar room. Seminars are designed for students to talk about topics in the course reading or lectures in detail, so students have to take an active part in the debate.
Biographical - a written work looking at a particular person's life.
Masculinity - qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men.
Fascism - a political system headed by a dictator in which the government controls business and labour, and to oppose the system is not allowed.
Modernism - a style or movement in the arts that aims to depart significantly from classical and traditional forms.
Virginia Woolf - Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
James Joyce - James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
DH Lawrence - David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
Perspectives - the way in which we see something - all of us have different perspectives on everything we see and hear.
Multi-vocational - provides you with skills for a very wide range of thinks.
Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Critical thinking - Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to form a judgement. You will need to employ critical thinking throughout your university career.
Discern - to recognise, discover or find something out.
Fundamental - something that is of central importance.
Regional - the places within a specific region.
Civil society - society linked by common interests and collective activity - in other words, family or close friends.
Heritage - part of the history of a place.
Relatable - enabling a person to feel that they can relate to someone or something.
Dramatist - a person who writes plays.
Decadence - luxurious self-indulgence, or excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
Toru Dutt - a Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature.
Baugmaree - a poem in which Toru Dutt compares Baugmaree to the Eden Garden of Heaven.
Inflections - a change in the form of a word to emphasise tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.
Novella - a short novel or long short story.
Synonym - a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word in the same language.
Synesthesia - a fancy name for when you experience one of your senses through another. For example, you might hear the name "Alex" and see green. Or you might read the word "street" and taste citrus fruit.
Garden Of Eden - The Garden of Eden is the biblical earthly paradise created by God to be inhabited by his first human creations - Adam and Eve.
John Milton - John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.
Ancestral - relating to, or inherited from an ancestor - we all have ancestors who came before us.
Scrutinise - to examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.
Colonial - a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country - India was once under British colonial rule.
Literary tradition - literary tradition is the constant production of new works.
Sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Continental - belonging to a continent.
Climate change - Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Rhetoric - the art of speaking or writing effectively.
Moral imperatives - A moral imperative is a strongly-felt principle that compels that person to act, such as speaking out about racism, for example.
Daily Mail - The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market newspaper and news website published in London in a tabloid format. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's highest-circulated daily newspaper.
The Guardian - The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959.
Continuity - consistent experience or actions over time.
Epitomises - the perfect example of something.
Economist - an economist is someone who studies the reasoning behind the decisions people make.
Consolation - the comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment.
Origins - the point or place where something begins.
Industrial revolution - The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
British empire - The British Empire is a term used to describe all the places around the world that were once ruled by Britain. Built over many years, it grew to include large areas of North America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa, as well as small parts of Central and South America, too.
John Ruskin - John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
Radically - to do something in a very thorough way.
Indigenous - the very first people in a particular place.
N.K Jemisin - Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, better known as N. K. Jemisin. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression.
Beyonce - Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is a super-successful American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Kogi - The Kogi people are an indigenous group that resides in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia.
Pre-conquest - occurring before a country was attacked.
Dystopia - an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian (very strict and often brutal) or post-apocalyptic (
Utopia - an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
J. R. R. Tolkien - J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Lord Of The Rings - The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.
Humanised - to make something seem human.
Anthropomorphised - giving human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.
Mobilised - to make something capable of movement.
Sauron - Sauron is the title character and the primary antagonist of Lord Of The Rings - he rules the land of Mordor and has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth.
Themes - the subject of a piece of writing.
Islamophobia - Islamophobia is the fear of, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims.
George Orwell - was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by staunch social criticism, and he is most famed for writing Animal Farm and 1984.
Virginia Woolf - was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Oscar Wilde - was a controversial Irish poet and playwright.
Jane Austen - was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, including Sense And Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.
The establishment - another way of saying “public institution
Parochial - relating to a Church parish.
George Dawson - George Dawson was an English nonconformist preacher, lecturer and activist. He was an influential voice in the calls for radical political and social reform in Birmingham, a philosophy that became known as the Civic Gospel.
The Royal Shakespeare Company - The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
Collaborators - people that work together on something.
Profound - something of great importance.
National identity - National identity is a person's sense of belonging to a nation or state.
Empire - a collection of states or countries ruled by one monarch.
Contemporary - something happening today, or very recently.
Intersection - the place where things meet.
LGBTQ+ - LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus more gender identities. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
Elizabethan - during the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Heroine - a noble, courageous or outstanding woman.
Boundless - unlimited, energetic.
Timon Of Athens - Timon of Athens is a play written by William Shakespeare and probably also Thomas Middleton in about 1606.
Bankrupt - somebody who can’t pay their bills.
Alliteration - repeated sounds or letters in a reading of words.
Exploited - to benefit from someone unfairly.
Astute - being able to accurately assess a situation.
Interpret - to explain the meaning of something.
Corruption - dishonest behaviour by those in power.
