English Literature

Course summary

Do you like reading? Do you enjoy discussing the books you have read and the ideas they raise? Do you want to learn more about good writing and explore a range of authors, past and present? This popular course will enable you to do all of these and more. We study a range of texts, including plays, poetry and novels. Through class work, reading and independent research we will study the key aspects of literary texts, including the ways in which writers construct narratives and create characters. We will also study the ways in which literature can be assessed and analysed as well as how comparisons between texts can be made in order to gain further insight and understanding.