English Language and Literature

Course summary

Novels, diaries, plays, travel writing, poetry, radio scripts, monologues, letters, newspaper articles, speeches, short stories. Do you like reading widely? Would you like to learn how to analyse a variety of literary and non-literary texts, and how to use these texts as a basis for your own writing? If so, this might be the course you are looking for. During the course you can expect to study: • How to write in different styles for a variety of readers. • How to analyse prose, poetry and drama from linguistic and literary perspectives. • How to analyse the language of real speech and how speech is used in literature. • How to compare literary texts, non-literary texts and speech.