English Literature

Course summary

Aspects of Tragedy: The study of three texts: one Shakespeare play, a second drama text, and one further text, one of which must have been written before 1900. Elements of Political and Social Protest writing: The study of three texts: one post-2000 prose text; one poetry and one further text . One of the texts must be written before 1900. You will also produce two pieces of coursework, based on your own independent reading. In preparation for this part of the course you will study a range of approaches to critical theory, including feminist and Marxist criticism, post-colonial theory, eco-critical approaches to literary criticism, aspects of narrative, and discussion of the literary canon, (in other words, which texts can be considered literature, and what it is that affords a text literary ‘value’).