A-Level English Language and Literature

Course summary

OVERVIEW A fully integrated course which links directly to the skills learned at GCSE, you will draw on the established academic fields of stylistics, linguistics, narratology and creative writing through a contemporary approach to studying a range of literary and non-literary discourses and texts, with emphasis on precise linguistic analysis. You will explore point of view and genre in prose fiction, voice and identity in poetry and interaction and conflict in drama. You will study the representation of place in an anthology of nonliterary texts (including spoken language, media texts and new technologies) and develop your own writing through textual intervention work.