English Literature

Course summary

Are you interested in the techniques employed by authors to create characters and situations and how texts reflect our lives and relationships, then this course is for you. You will read, study and enjoy modern novels and plays, some Victorian texts, some Shakespeare and review a wide range of writing. Additionally, we will discuss texts in performance, how they work on stage and screen and not least in imagination. The texts covered include various themes and theoretical perspectives such as: dramatic tragedy, social and political protest writing, feminism and Marxism. Word texts covered comprise: Othello; The Great Gatsby; Richard II, The Kite Runner, William Blake poems, A Dolls House, and your own coursework texts.